Tayside Children's Hospital

Tayside Children's Hospital
Ninewells Hospital where Tayside Children's Hospital is based
Geography
Location Dundee, Scotland.
Coordinates Coordinates: 56°27′54″N 3°02′20″W / 56.465°N 3.039°W / 56.465; -3.039
Organisation
Care system NHS
Network NHS Tayside
Services
Links
Other links List of hospitals in Scotland

Tayside Children's Hospital is a children's hospital which is attached to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Scotland. It is run by NHS Tayside and delivers services to children who live in Dundee, Angus, Perth and Kinross and north east Fife.[1]

It is one of four children's hospitals in Scotland. The hospital combines medical services for children from prenatal to adolescence with research departments specialising in paediatrics and child development.

NHS Tayside has recently signed an agreement with the ARCHIE Foundation, a North of Scotland children’s health charity and together, the organisations aim to improve and enhance the services currently provided to the children of Tayside.

Construction

Approval for this facility to be built was given in 1999, and the development was to proceed in 2 stages.[2] It was formally opened on 7 June 2006 by television celebrity Fred MacAulay.[3]

Facilities

In the hospital is a 40-bed children's medical ward which includes a six-bed High Dependency Unit and the Paediatric Assessment Unit. An outdoor play area/garden and a large indoor play centre is run by staff, which also houses an area providing entertainment equipment for teenagers. Close to the children’s wards is the Ronald McDonald suite for parents to reside in while their child is in hospital.[4] There is a separate children's outpatient clinic which has two play areas and a quiet room for parents.

Specialist services for children are provided, including paediatric sub-specialists in Neurology, Gastroenterology, Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Epilepsy amongst others. Visiting clinicians from other children’s hospitals in Scotland offer support in Metabolic Medicine, Rheumatology, Cardiology and Renal.

Integrated into the Children’s Hospital is Child Health, responsible for the delivery of academic Child Health Research and teaching for the School of Medicine, University of Dundee. Tayside Children’s Hospital also extends beyond the Ninewells site with the Children’s Ambulatory Care Unit at Perth Royal Infirmary[5] and community child health services.

References

  1. ↑ "Dundee children's hospital opens". BBC News. 6 June 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Galbraith approves plans for children's hospital in Dundee". Scottish Government. 18 February 1999. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Opening Of Tayside Children's Hospital". Medical News Today. 11 June 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Tayside Children's Hospital Opening day 7th June 2006". University of Dundee. 7 June 2006. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Children's Ambulatory Care Unit PRI". NHS Tayside. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
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