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The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) was established in 1729, and is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland. The new buildings of 1879 were claimed to be the largest voluntary hospital in the United Kingdom, and later on, the Empire. [ 2 ]
Quartermile mixes old and new construction. The former site of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was sold in 2001 by Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust (subsequently NHS Lothian), whereupon Foster and Partners were retained as the architects for new structures [2] whilst plans for the David Bryce-designed former hospital buildings were devised by Comprehensive Design Architects (CDA).
The site also houses the new University of Edinburgh Medical School. The New Edinburgh Royal Infirmary was designed in line with the City of Edinburgh Council s Green Transport Policy. New bus routes linking Little France with Edinburgh's centre were created plus Park and Ride facilities.
This had sat empty since 2003, when the surgical services transferred to the new Royal Infirmary in Little France. [3] In 2018, the university signed the £1.3 billion Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal in partnership with the UK and Scottish governments, six local authorities and all universities and colleges in the region. [4]
The facility was directly managed by the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, within a grouping of hospitals that would become the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh National Health Service Trust in 1994. [10] After services transferred to the Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 's new site in Little France , the ...
The Royal Hospital for Children and Young People is a hospital that specialises in paediatric healthcare based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The hospital replaced the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (the Sick Kids) in Sciennes. It forms part of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh campus in the Edinburgh BioQuarter at Little France.
The building, which was designed by Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall, formed part of the first phase of the intended re-development of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh [a] and was built between 1976 [2] and 1981. [3] The Edinburgh Dental Institute moved to the building from Chambers Street in 1997. [3]
The site also houses the new University of Edinburgh Medical School and Research Centre which can be seen here. The New Edinburgh Royal Infirmary was designed in line with the City of Edinburgh Council s Green Transport Policy. New bus routes linking Little France with Edinburgh's centre were created plus Park and Ride facilities.