Royal Alexandra Hospital (Paisley)
- Royal Alexandra Hospital (Paisley)
Infobox Hospital
Name = Royal Alexandria Hospital
Org/Group = NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Hospital Trust
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Region = Paisley, Renfrewshire
State = Scotland
Country = UK
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HealthCare = NHS
Type = General Hospital
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Emergency = Yes
Affiliation = University of West of Scotland
Beds = 650 [http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/pharmacy/prereg/documents/Greater_Glasgow_&_Clyde.doc page 5] ]
Founded = 1986
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Wiki-Links = |The Royal Alexandra Hospital is the main hospital in Paisley serving a large catchment area as much as 200 000 from Renfrewshire, [ [http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/sfas/Prog_by_Region/West/hospitals/royal_alexandra/ SFAS-Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley ] ] stretching all the way to Oban and Argyll
Facilities
Royal Alexandra provides the local catchment area with many services. These include: an A&E department; Psychiatric; general medical and surgical services; trauma and emergency surgery centre and a children's ward. [ [http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s762&loc_id=2527 NHSGGC / Facility Details/ Royal Alexandra Hospital ] ]
The hospital contains the only maternity unit for the whole South Clyde area, after this was done away with at Inverclyde Royal Hospital. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3059525.stm BBC NEWS | Scotland | Maternity unit shake-up unveiled ] ] The hospital also received some re-located services from Vale of Leven Hospital in Alexandria as part of a shuffle. Nonetheless, other services from this hospital will re-locate to Southern General in Glasgow to help balance this out fairly.
July 2007, Glasgow Airport Bombing
The hospital received patients from the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, including one of the suspects who was taken to the hospital under arrest with severe burns. Parts of the hospital were later evacuated when a suspect device, originally believed to be a suicide belt, was discovered on the suspect. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6257194.stm Blazing car crashes into airport] , "BBC News", 30th June 2007] On the afternoon of July 1 a controlled explosion of a car was carried out in the car park of the hospital.[cite news|url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1273148,00.html|publisher=Sky News|title=Police Blow Up Car At Hospital|date=July 1, 2007] ]References
External links
* [http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s762&loc_id=2527 NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - Royal Alexandra Hospital]
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