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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.
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] The hospital moved to a new 900 bed site in 2003 in Little France.
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A new hospital, which was commissioned to replace the Southfield House facility, [6] was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in February 1999. [6] It was built by James Walker (Leith) Limited just to the north of Southfield House at a cost of £2.65 million and opened as Ellen's Glen House in January 2000.
New College is situated on The Mound in the north of Edinburgh's Old Town. New College originally opened its doors in 1846 as a college of the Free Church of Scotland, later of the United Free Church of Scotland, and since 1935 has been the home of the School of Divinity (formerly the Faculty of Divinity) of the University of Edinburgh. [3]
The Edinburgh Community Health Partnership (CHP) has responsibilities around delivering community health services and also addressing inequalities in Edinburgh for NHS Lothian. [ 4 ] When the CHPs were established in 2005 they provided a single management structure, taking over control of community services which were transferred under their ...
According to a Healthcare Survey run by Saga in 2006, the medical school's main teaching hospital, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, was considered the best hospital in Scotland. The medical school is associated with 13 Nobel Prize laureates: 7 in the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and 6 in the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [4]
The 20-bed hospital opened in July 1925. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and was directly managed by the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh . [ 3 ] After services transferred to the Eastern General Hospital , despite public protests about the proposed closure, the facility closed in 1988. [ 3 ]