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- Position as printed15 Newsweek and Statista, World's Best Hospitals 2026: United Kingdom (opens the publisher’s list in a new tab) Statista scored hospitals within each country on hospital quality metrics (40 per cent), peer recommendations from an online survey of medical experts (30 per cent national, 5 per cent international), patient experience data (18.5 per cent) and its PROMs Implementation Survey (6.5 per cent), and lists specialised hospitals separately without a rank.
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About the hospital
Glasgow Royal Infirmary is at 84 Castle Street in Glasgow and is run by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. In a news release of 11 December 2019 marking the hospital’s 225th birthday, the board said it had served the public since 1794, described it as a teaching hospital with more than 1,000 beds, and said it served a catchment area of more than 320,000 people.
According to the board, the site has a 24-hour emergency department and buildings including the Queen Elizabeth Building (intensive care, high dependency, audiology and nuclear medicine), the MacEwan Building (haematology), the New Lister Building (microbiology and virology, including the West of Scotland Specialist Virology Centre) and the Walton Building (Walton Liver and GI Centre). Wards include a coronary care unit, an acute stroke unit, the Regional Burns Unit and Canniesburn plastic and reconstructive surgery. Princess Royal Maternity is adjacent on Alexandra Parade.
Facts
- Beds
- more than 1,000 beds (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde news release, 11 December 2019)
- Opened
- 1794
- Address
- 84 Castle Street, Glasgow, G4 0SF
- Maternity
- Princess Royal Maternity, adjacent on Alexandra Parade (NHSGGC)
- Catchment
- More than 320,000 people (NHSGGC, 2019)
- Specialist units
- Regional Burns Unit; Walton Liver and GI Centre; West of Scotland Specialist Virology Centre (NHSGGC)
Questions readers ask
Who runs Glasgow Royal Infirmary?
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
How many beds does Glasgow Royal Infirmary have?
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said in December 2019 that the hospital had more than 1,000 beds.
Where is Glasgow Royal Infirmary?
84 Castle Street, Glasgow, G4 0SF.
Sources
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