Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow

The Royal Hospital for Children is a 256-bed hospital specialising in paediatric healthcare. The hospital is part of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and is built on the site of the former Southern General Hospital, in Govan and opened in June 2015. The hospital replaced the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Yorkhill.

The Royal Hospital for Children and the adjacent Queen Elizabeth University Hospital were designed by Nightingale Associates, with construction carried out by Brookfield Multiplex, who previously built Wembley Stadium. In 2008, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde submitted a business case to the Scottish Government for a new acute hospital to replace facilities at the Western Infirmary and Victoria Infirmary, and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. Designs were unveiled for the hospital campus in November 2009, with public funding being approved. The new hospital was to be built on the site of the Southern General Hospital. In January 2010, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde closed the Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital, with maternity services relocating to the Southern.

At the time of construction the hospital campus was Scotland's largest ever publicly funded NHS construction project, costing £842 million to build. it was built on and around site of the old Southern General Hospital, with construction starting in early 2011. Originally to be called Royal Hospital for Sick Children, it was renamed Royal Hospital for Children by Queen Elizabeth II. It was originally hoped the new hospital would be ready by 2014, but medical services did not start to be transferred until 10 June 2015.

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