Western General Hospital
| Western General Hospital | |
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| NHS Lothian | |
 Shown in Edinburgh
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| Geography | |
| Location | Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland |
| Coordinates | 55°57′44″N 3°14′06″W / 55.962142°N 3.234947°WCoordinates: 55°57′44″N 3°14′06″W / 55.962142°N 3.234947°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS Scotland |
| Hospital type | General Hospital |
| Affiliated university | University of Edinburgh Medical School |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Minor Injuries Unit only |
| Beds | 570 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1868 |
| Links | |
| Website | Western General Hospital |
The Western General Hospital (often abbreviated to simply "The Western"), at Crewe Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, is part of NHS Lothian, a Health Board which provides a comprehensive range of adult and paediatric care to the people of Edinburgh, the Lothians and beyond.
The hospital has around 570 beds including day beds. It is one of the main teaching hospitals affiliated to the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
Although the Western no longer has an Accident and Emergency, a nurse-led minor injuries unit has been running since 1994. The hospital does contain an Acute Receiving Unit and Admissions Unit which patients can be referred to by their general practitioner.
The hospital serves as a base for the neurology and neurosurgery centre for south east Scotland ("Department of Clinical Neurosciences"), the regional oncology, infectious diseases and haematology Units, the regional Colorectal Surgical Unit and the Stroke Research Unit for Lothian. There is a major national cancer research and treatment centre at the hospital, which had refurbishment work completed in 2007. There is also a urology department on the site.
The hospital also contains the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit. (Clinical services in Scotland for adults with cystic fibrosis are also provided from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital in Glasgow.) The Edinburgh team runs an outreach clinic in Dundee, and the University of Dundee is home to the cystic fibrosis audit database, which collects data on all registered CF patients to monitor their health trends. Training and support is also available for patients and their carers to facilitate and maximise independent living and to encourage community based management wherever possible, and there is also provision for in-patient and day case clinical management.
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