Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow
| Royal Hospital for Sick Children | |
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| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Yorkhill, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS Scotland |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of Glasgow |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 266 |
| Speciality |
Children's hospital Neonatology |
| History | |
| Founded | 1882 |
| Closed | June 2015 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s762&loc_id=24 |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children was an NHS Scotland hospital in Yorkhill, Glasgow, specialising in paediatric healthcare. It was commonly referred to simply as Yorkhill or "Sick Kids". The hospital provided care for newborn babies right up to children around 13 years of age, including a specialist Accident and Emergency facility and the only Donor Milk Banking facility in Scotland. The hospital closed in June 2015, with services transferring to the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, one of the hospitals build on the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus on the Southside of the city. The hospital building at Yorkhill has since reopened as the West Glasgow Ambulatory Care Hospital.
The hospital was originally completed at Garnethill in 1882 and opened on 20 December as the Hospital for Sick Children. It took almost 22 years to come to fruition due to a dispute with the University of Glasgow regarding a suitable site.
When opened, the hospital had 58 beds. It was funded by charitable donations. On 8 January 1883, the hospital admitted its first patient, a 5-year-old boy with curvature of the spine. A further 16 beds were added in 1887 when Thomas Carlyle converted a house next door into an annexe. The hospital was given Royal patronage in 1889 when the prefix was added to its title.
The hospital was suffering from a chronic lack of space by the 1900s and as a result a new site at Yorkhill was chosen for the replacement hospital building. Designed by John James Burnet, the new building opened in July 1914. A public appeal had raised almost £140,000 in order for the Yorkhill site to be able to open.
On 11 July 1964, the Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital opened on a site adjacent to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. In 1966, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children was temporarily relocated to the former Oakbank Hospital buildings in Maryhill in order to facilitate the demolition of the existing building, which was discovered to be suffering from severe structural defects. The new Royal Hospital for Sick Children building was reopened at Yorkhill by Queen Elizabeth II in 1972 and coupled with the Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital, effectively established a national centre of integrated Obstetrics and Paediatric healthcare.
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