St John's Hospital at Howden

Contact Details

St John's Hospital at Howden
Howden Road West
Howden
Livingston
West Lothian
EH54 6PP
Telephone: 01506 523000

St John’s Hospital is a modern teaching hospital that provides a comprehensive and expanding range of services for the people of Lothian and beyond.

The hospital, based at Howden in Livingston, has a 24-hour Accident and Emergency department, recently modernised with a £3.5 million upgrade. Its range of specialist services include burns treatment and plastic surgery.

There is a full paediatric service at the hospital, including an acute receiving unit, special baby unit, paediatric ward and a comprehensive range of outpatient services.

In April 2006, ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery transferred to St John’s from Edinburgh, as part of plans to establish a specialist head and neck unit. The hospital is developing a regional centre for elective surgery, including a centre for minimally invasive surgery. St John’s also has a reputation for excellence in maternity services and around 2,500 babies are born at the hospital every year.

St John’s is part of NHS Lothian’s University Hospitals Division.

Services

St John’s offers patients a wide range of services including:

• Accident and Emergency
• Burns
• Cardiology
• Dermatology
• Ear, Nose and Throat
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• General medicine
• General surgery
• Gynaecology
• Haematology
• Maxillofacial surgery
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Obstetrics
• Opthalmology
• Orthopaedics
• Paediatrics
• Plastic surgery
• Renal dialysis
• Respiratory medicine
• Rheumatology
• Surgical paediatrics

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

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