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The original site proposed for the new hospital was that occupied by the cottage hospital, but a lack of space for the expansion caused the plans to be abandoned. [4] A site was eventually chosen around the local sanatorium and fever hospital. [2] [4] [5] Construction of the new Victoria Hospital began in 1955 and was completed in 1967. [2]
The first phase of the new hospital, which excluded maternity services, opened in 1985. The second phase was completed in 1993 and the new facilities were officially opened by the Princess Royal later that year. [1] [2] From January 2012, all of Fife's accident and emergency services were located at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy. [3]
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, one of the largest acute hospital campuses in Europe. [1] [2]The following is a list of acute, general district, and mental health hospitals currently open and operational in Scotland, organised into each of the 14 regional health boards of NHS Scotland.
In 2019, it was reported that the NHS Fife estate needed £89 million of maintenance to bring the buildings up to acceptable standards, and that this cost had risen by £11.5 million in the last year, primarily due to further deterioration of the tower block at Victoria Hospital. [5]
The Maggie's centre in Kirkcaldy, Fife, opened in November 2006 at the Victoria Hospital. The building was designed by Zaha Hadid , and is her first built work in the UK. [ 8 ] In the building there is emphasis placed on the transition between the natural and the man-made, and on the period between the hospital and home; the transition after ...
The Victoria Radio Network (VRN) is a hospital radio station based in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. [1] It currently broadcasts 24 hours a day to the premises of the Victoria Hospital and surrounding facilities to patients' bedside radios and www.vrnkirkcaldy.com
It became the Victoria Infirmary to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. [2] The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and an extension providing new physiotherapy, X-ray and out-patient facilities opened in 1951.
The facility, which provides psychiatry and services for elderly patients, was completed in 1983. [1] A serious outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting, in which three people died, occurred at the hospital in October 2002. [2]