Royal Hospital for Sick Children

Contact Details

Royal Hospital for Sick Children
9 Sciennes Road
Edinburgh
EH9 1LF
Telephone: 0131 536 0000

We are currently planning a new children and young people's hospital, with information available at The Royal Hospital for Sick Children Reprovision Project.

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children – often fondly referred to as ‘the Sick Kids’ – provides a comprehensive range of dedicated children's services, including its own Accident and Emergency Department, caring for youngsters from across Lothian and beyond.

The hospital is based at Sciennes, near Edinburgh city centre, and offers services including acute medical and surgical care, specialist surgical and medical care, haematology and oncology, day care, and critical care.

The wards cover a range of specialties, including acute receiving unit and medical specialties; surgical unit and oncology; critical care and theatre services and recovery unit. A busy outpatient department cares for more than 34,000 patients a year.

The RHSC is part of NHS Lothian’s University Hospitals Division. Please be aware that from the 4th September 2006 there will be limited parking in the areas surrounding the RHSC as many streets have become permit only zones.

To find out more about the history of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, please visit our history pages.

Services

The Sick Kids offers patients a wide range of services including:

• Accident and Emergency
• Anaesthetics
• Burns
• Cardiology
• Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)
• Gastroenterology
• Haematology
• Infectious diseases
• Neonatology
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Oral surgery
• Orthopaedics
• Paediatric medicine
• Paediatric surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Rheumatology
• Scoliosis

For a complete list of services at Lothian hospitals, look at our A to Z of Services.

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