Foresterhill

Infobox UK place
official_name= ForesterhillSometimes written as "Forresterhill"]
gaelic_name=
scots_name=
local_name=
country= Scotland
population= "Not applicable"
population_density=
os_grid_reference= NJ917070
latitude= 57.1546
longitude= -2.1374
post_town= ABERDEEN
postcode_area= AB
postcode_district= AB24
dial_code= 01224
constituency_westminster= Aberdeen North
unitary_scotland= City of Aberdeen
lieutenancy_scotland= Aberdeen
constituency_scottish_parliament= North East Scotland
constituency_scottish_parliament1= Aberdeen Central
website= [http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk aberdeencity.gov.uk]

Foresterhill is an area in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the site of the city's main hospitals (Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital and the Aberdeen Maternity Hospital), as well as the medical school and medical science departments of the University of Aberdeen. It is the largest hospital complex in the whole of Europe [cite web|url=http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/release.php?id=659|title=First step towards state-of-the-art medical teaching and learning centre|author=University of Aberdeen|date=2006-08-01]

Foresterhill is situated at the highest point in the city, a site identified by Professor Matthew Hay in 1900. He had the vision of an integrated medical campus, with a combined hospital and medical school for the City of Aberdeen. [cite journal|author=Gorsky M|title=‘Threshold of a New Era’: The Development of an Integrated Hospital System in Northeast Scotland, 1900–39|journal=Social History of Medicine|volume=17|issue=2|pages=247–267|url=http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/2/247|doi=10.1093/shm/17.2.247|year=2004]

The site has its own helicopter landing site due to the hospitals' roles as tertiary hospitals for the North of Scotland and the rurality of Grampian as a catchment area.

Hospitals at Foresterhill

*Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
*Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
*Aberdeen Maternity Hospital

Buildings at Foresterhill

Notable university buildings

*Institute of Medical Sciences
*Institute of Applied Health Sciences
*Medico-Chirurgical Hall
*Polwarth Building — main building of Aberdeen Medical School
*Westburn Centre — clinical skills training building

Other buildings

*Blood Transfusion Centre — run by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service
*The National Hyperbaric Centre

ee also

*Matthew Hay
*NHS Grampian
*Robert Gordon University
*University of Aberdeen

External links

* [http://www.nhsgrampian.org/nhsgrampian/files/ARI%20Site%20Map%20bus.pdf Map of Foresterhill] , provided by NHS Grampian

References