Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh

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The 'Sick Kids', Edinburgh

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children is a hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, specialising in paediatric healthcare. It is commonly referred to simply as the Sick Kids. The hospital provides care for children from birth to around 13 years of age, including a specialist Accident and Emergency facility. The hospital is located on Sciennes Road in the Sciennes area of Edinburgh's South Side.

History

Royal Arms carving over the main entrance

The hospital opened in 1860, and received a royal charter in 1863, when it moved to the purpose-built Meadowside House.[1] In 1890 an outbreak of typhoid forced a temporary removal to Morningside, and Meadowside House was subsequently sold.[1] Plans for a new hospital were put in hand, to designs by George Washington Browne. The Sciennes Road building was opened on 31 October 1895 by Princess Beatrice.[2] The hospital celebrated its 150th birthday in 2010.

In 2005, NHS Lothian decided to develop plans to move the Sick Kids from its present site to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh at Little France on the south-east edge of the city. A business case for the project was approved by the Scottish Government in January 2012, with the new facility expected to open in mid-2017.[3] The new building at Little France will also accommodate the department of clinical neurosciences who will move across from the Western General Hospital and the department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) who will move from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.[4] The new hospital will have 233 beds.[5] It will be built under the Scottish Futures Trust.[6]

Fundraising

In 2011, 6-year old Jack Henderson made the headlines by raising money for the hospital that cared for his brother, in exchange for drawings he had created. He originally planned to raise £100, but quickly raised £10,000.[7] A book, Jack Draws Anything, was published in October 2011.[8] After 3 years the fundraising total exceeded £64,000 and the project was brought to an end in June 2014.[9]

References

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