Forth Valley Royal Hospital
Hospital in Falkirk, Scotland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Forth Valley Royal Hospital is a hospital located in Larbert, Scotland. With 860 inpatient beds, 25 wards, and 16 operating theatres, it was Scotland's largest ever NHS construction project at the time but has been surpassed by the New Southern General hospital amongst others. Built at a cost of £300 million on the site of the old Royal Scottish National Hospital, it opened to its first patients in 2010. It is operated by NHS Forth Valley.
Forth Valley Royal | |
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NHS Forth Valley | |
Geography | |
Location | Stirling Road, Larbert, Falkirk, Scotland |
Coordinates | 56.0254°N 3.8480°W / 56.0254; -3.8480 |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS Scotland |
Type | General |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
Beds | 860 |
History | |
Opened | 2010 |
Links | |
Website | nhsforthvalley |
Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
The hospital is the first in Scotland to have a Forestry Commission ranger on site, whose job is to encourage the use of the 70-acre (28 ha) grounds formerly belonging to the Larbert House estate. It has Scotland's first fully robotic pharmacy, in which robots dispense and label medicines. The hospital also employs robots to carry out tasks such as removing waste, delivering food to wards, and cleaning operating theatres.