Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh

The Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, is a purpose-built 247 bed hospital situated in the north-west of Edinburgh near the Western General Hospital. It is the main geriatric assessment and rehabilitation hospital for the north of Edinburgh and comprises a Medical Assessment/Rehabilitation Unit with 200 beds, and a Psychiatry of Old Age Unit with 47 beds.

Within the Medical Unit there is an Acute Assessment Ward, a two-ward Trauma Unit that specialises in falls and orthopaedic rehabilitation, a Parkinson’s Disease Unit, a rehabilitation ward with an interest in delirium, and a Stroke Rehabilitation Unit. There are three Day Hospitals on site (Medical, General Adult Psychiatry and Psychiatry of Old Age) and a busy out-patient department. There is a further geriatric medical day hospital at Leith Community Treatment Centre (CTC). Outpatient clinics take place at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Leith CTC.