Yorkhill Hospital Closes Its Doors

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill has begun its move to a new site in Govan.

Yorkhill is being moved on a phased basis with the Accident and Emergency Department closing its doors first. Inpatients and day surgery services will move between the 10th and 12th June and outpatient services will start between the 12th and 14th June.

The hospital has been located on the Yorkhill site since 1914 and celebrated its 100th birthday last year.

The new hospital features 244 paediatric beds in single room accommodation. The rooms have en suite facilities and space for overnight accommodation for parents.

The hospital also has a cinema, science centre, interactive activing walls and indoor and outdoor play areas.

Robert Calderwood, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Chief Executive, said: “The new adult acute hospital and new RHSC have been a long time in the planning and construction, and I am delighted that they are now complete.

“The new RHSC has been designed to the make any child’s visit to the hospital as pleasant as possible with a cinema, science centre, interactive activity walls, indoor and outdoor play areas and a roof garden. “We hope that the children who move to the new hospital this week are as pleased with it as we are.”