Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh
The Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, is a purpose-built 247-bed hospital situated in the north-west of Edinburgh on Craigleith Road near the Western General Hospital run by NHS Lothian. It is the main geriatric assessment and rehabilitation hospital for the north of Edinburgh and comprises a Medical Assessment/Rehabilitation Unit with 200 beds, and a Psychiatry of Old Age Unit with 47 beds. These are spread over nine wards.
Within the Medical Unit there is an Acute Assessment Ward, a two-ward Trauma Unit that specialises in falls and orthopaedic rehabilitation, a Parkinson’s Disease Unit, a rehabilitation ward with an interest in delirium, and a Stroke Rehabilitation Unit.
There is a Medical and Psychiatric (Orchard) Day Hospital on site and a busy medicine of the elderly out-patient department. There is a further medical day hospital at Leith Community Treatment Centre (CTC). Outpatient clinics take place at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Leith CTC.
Although the health board had intended to close the facility in 2012, bed shortages elsewhere meant that services continued to be provided at this site. [1]
New Royal Victoria Building
Work began on a new building in June 2010 on the site of the old Paderewski building at the Western which was the site of the Polish School of Medicine in 1941 until 1949 which was demolished in May 2010.
In June 2012 the Medicine for the Elderly services were transferred from the Royal Victoria Hospital on to the new purpose built Royal Victoria Building at the Western General Hospital.[2] It is a new build with 100% single room accommodation. It also holds dermatology and rheumatology outpatient clinics relocated from other Lothian hospitals.
It is proposed to demolish the hospital as part of the blueprint to stop bed blocking and revolutionise care in the community.[3]
References
- ↑ "Axed Royal Victoria Hospital reopened to cope with bed shortages". The Scotsman. 17 November 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ↑ "Royal Victoria Building". NHS Lothian. 9 June 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ↑ "Hospitals facing care village axe". Edinburgh News. 9 April 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
External Links
- Royal Victoria Hospital Official site
- History of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Craigleith Road, Edinburgh
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