| Royal Hospital for Sick Children | |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Yorkhill, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of Glasgow |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 266 |
| Speciality | Children's hospital Neonatology |
| History | |
| Founded | 1882 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s762&loc_id=24 |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children is a hospital in Yorkhill, Glasgow, specialising in paediatric healthcare. It is commonly referred to simply as Yorkhill. The hospital provides care for newborn babies right up to children around 13 years of age, including a specialist Accident and Emergency facility.
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The Hospital currently has 266 inpatient beds, 12 daycase beds, and handles approximately 90,000 out-patients, 15,000 in-patients and 7,300 daycases every year.[1]
The hospital was originally completed at Garnethill in 1882 and opened on 20 December as the Hospital for Sick Children. It took almost 22 years to come to fruition due to a dispute with the University of Glasgow regarding a suitable site.
When opened, the hospital had 58 beds. On 8 January 1883, the hospital admitted its first patient, a 5-year-old boy with curvature of the spine. A further 16 beds were added in 1887 when Thomas Carlyle converted a house next door into an annexe. The hospital was given Royal patronage in 1889 when the prefix was added to its title.
The hospital was suffering from a chronic lack of space by the 1900s and as a result a new site at Yorkhill was chosen for the replacement hospital building. Designed by John James Burnet, the new building opened in July 1914. On Jul 11, 1964, the Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital opened on a site adjacent to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.[2] In 1966, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children was temporarily relocated to the former Oakbank Hospital buildings in Maryhill in order to facilitate the demolition of the existing building, which was discovered to be suffering from severe structural defects. The new Royal Hospital for Sick Children building was reopened at Yorkhill by Queen Elizabeth II in 1972 and coupled with the Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital, effectively established a national centre of integrated Obstetrics and Paediatric healthcare. A new operating theatre complex opened in 1998 and a new Intensive Care Unit opened in April 2005.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde closed the Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital on January 13, 2010[3] and plan to re-locate the Royal Hospital for Sick Children to the Southern General Hospital site in Govan (which is being comprehensively redeveloped) where it is planned to open in 2015. The new £100 million, 256 bed, Royal Hospital for Sick Children will be integrated with the refurbished Maternity unit at the Southern General Hospital as well as a new 1109 bed Adult Hospital and the existing specialist Institute of Neurological Sciences.
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