Ullevål University Hospital

Ullevål University Hospital ( _no. Ullevål universitetssykehus) is the largest hospital in Norway, and one of the largest in Northern Europe. It has more than 8,600 employees. 940 of them are doctors and 2,400 nurses. With a total of 1,200 beds Ullevål, admits some 45,000 patients per year and its polyclinics have about 400,000 consultations per year. The main hospital is located near the centre of the Norwegian capital Oslo, and was opened in 1887.

Ullevål University Hospital is a highly specialised hospital with many different functions. The hospital also runs many residency training programmes for different groups engaged in health care, such as doctors, nurses and medical laboratory technicians. The hospital is a level I trauma center, servicing approximately half of Norway's population.

Currently, the hospital is divided into the following divisions:
*Administration
*Heart & Lung Centre
*Division of Internal Services
*Medical Division
*Orthopaedic Centre
*Pre-Hospital Division
*Psychiatric Division
*Lab/Rad Division ref|labrad
*Surgical Division
*Women and Children's Division

The Hospital is affiliated with the medical faculty of the University of Oslo, and constitutes one the faculty's five faculty divisions (which are all hospitals in the Oslo area; the faculty additionally consists of five institutes). As such, medical research and education is an important task of Ullevål University Hospital.

External links

* [http://www.ulleval.no Ullevål University Hospital]
* [http://www.med.uio.no/ulleval/ Faculty Division Ullevål University Hospital, University of Oslo]

Footnotes

# Division of Radiology and Division of Laboratory Medicine merged in 2005. The name Lab/Rad Division is a temporary name.