Glasgow Royal Infirmary, in the east of the city, provides a wide range of district general hospital, regional, supra-regional and national acute clinical services.

Since 2001, two major capital developments have opened at Glasgow Royal Infirmary: the Princess Royal Maternity and the Jubilee Building, the latter providing accommodation for a new A & E department, a coronary care unit, an acute medical receiving unit and an orthopaedic surgery inpatient unit.

Additionally, the Canniesburn Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit has been located in the new building. It has six dedicated operating theatres as well as specialist inpatient and outpatient services.

Between 2010 and 2015, further modernisation work will ensure the Royal Infirmary will be fully equipped to serve as the main inpatient hospital for the north and east of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's area.

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Situated in the west of the city, Gartnavel General Hospital offers a broad range of
health services.

The breadth and complexity of these has expanded considerably over the past few years with the development of the Brownlee Centre for communicable diseases, the opening of Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital and the ophthalmology department.

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Stobhill Hospital is located in north of the city and has approximately 440 beds. It provides a range of acute medical and surgical services to the population of North Glasgow and part of East Dunbartonshire, a population of more than 200,000 people.

The hospital has an exciting future. The new £100m purpose-designed Stobhill Hospital will be operational by 2009.

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The Western Infirmary, which is on Dumbarton Road in Glasgow's West End, houses most of the acute emergency and receiving functions serving the west of the city - accident and emergency, intensive care, orthopaedic trauma, emergency surgery, acute medicine and acute stroke.

In addition, the hospital provides elective gastrointestinal, breast and cardiothoracic surgery.

Medical specialties include cardiology (coronary care, invasive and non-invasive cardiac investigation, and angioplasty), general medicine, and renal medicine (including renal transplantation).

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The Southern General Hospital is a large teaching hospital with an acute operational bed complement of approximately 900 beds. The hospital is sited in the south-west of Glasgow and provides a comprehensive range of acute and related clinical services.

District General Hospital services are provided for the south-west of the city, with some services provided for the whole city.

Services include Accident and Emergency, Dermatology, ENT, General Medicine (including sub-specialties), General Surgery (including sub-specialties), Medicine for the Elderly (including Assessment, Rehabilitation and Day Services), Gynaecology, Neonatal Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Urology, Physically Disabled Rehabilitation and Continuing Care.

The Obstetrics, Urology, Ophthalmology and Dermatology Departments provide the single in-patient location for the whole population of South Glasgow. The division manages the Dermatology Service for the whole city.

The Maxillofacial Department for the whole city was centralised at the hospital in the autumn of 2002 providing trauma and elective surgery and specialist provision for head and neck cancer.

South and West Glasgow's in-patient Gynaecology service was centralised at the Southern General Hospital in late 2003/early 2004, bringing together on one site a range of services from across the city. The Assessment and Rehabilitation service for the Physically Disabled is also provided for the whole city from the Southern General Hospital.

There is also a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic services including Audiology, Clinical Psychology, Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, ECG, Physiotherapy, Radiology (including MRI and CT provision for the general hospital service) and Speech Therapy.

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The Queen Mother's Hospital

The Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital delivers approximately 3,500 babies each year. It has 70 maternity beds plus 28 Paediatric Department cots, which includes Intensive Care and the Special Baby Unit.

Following the extensive review of Maternity services across Glasgow, the Queen Mother's Hospital will close at the end of 2009.

Staff and services will be relocated to the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital and the expanded Southern General Maternity in accordance with the plan to reduce Glasgow's maternity hospitals from three to two.

Antenatal care for women in the West End of Glasgow will be developed on the Western Infirmary site following an extensive community engagement exercise with local women on what they required.

Royal Hospital for Sick Children

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children has 266 in-patient beds, 12 daycase beds, and handles approximately 90,000 out-patients, 15,000 in-patients, 7,300 daycases and 35,000 A&E attendances every year.

The hospital provides care for newborn babies right up to children of about 13 years of age.

Within the community, Yorkhill Division provides a wide range of services from four Child Development Centres at - Bridgeton Health Centre, Possilpark Health Centre, Drumchapel Health Centre and the new Southbank Centre in the Gorbals.

These centres run various clinics dealing with speech, hearing, emotional or behavioural problems, as well as organising immunisation programmes in local schools.

A wide range of staff provide these services, including consultant community paediatricians, psychologists, occupational therapists, speech & language therapists and school nurses, amongst others.

In its role as a major academic institution, the division is home to a number of university departments as well as internationally acclaimed research groups.

The division's significant commitment to the teaching and training of new doctors, nurses, midwives and other health professionals, ensures that highly trained NHS staff are ready to care for the mothers and children of tomorrow.

The division is dedicated to providing all aspects of care at Yorkhill in a child focused and friendly environment.

In order to achieve this, the division is actively involving patients and their families through the Patient Focus Public Involvement (PFPI) initiative. This work enables the patients and families actually using services to have their say.

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