Foresterhill

Foresterhill^[1]
Scottish Gaelic: *Cnoc an Fhorsair^[2]*
Scots: *Foresterhill*
Foresterhill Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc an Fhorsair; Scots: Foresterhill;
	Foresterhill Location within the Aberdeen City council area Foresterhill Location within Scotland
Population	Not applicable
OS grid reference	NJ917070
Council area	Aberdeen City;
Lieutenancy area	Aberdeen;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ABERDEEN
Postcode district	AB25, AB16
Dialling code	01224
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Aberdeen North;
Scottish Parliament	Aberdeen Central;
Website	aberdeencity.gov.uk
	List of places UK Scotland 57°09′17″N 2°08′15″W / 57.1546°N 2.1374°W

Foresterhill^[1] is an area 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 Europe.^[3]

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.^[4]

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, plus this is the primary emergency hospital for the offshore industries.

Hospitals at Foresterhill

Buildings at Foresterhill

Notable university buildings

Institute of Applied Health Sciences
Institute of Medical Sciences
Medico-Chirurgical Hall
Polwarth Building — main building of Aberdeen Medical School
Suttie Centre — Teaching & Learning Centre^[5]
Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health

Other buildings

Blood Transfusion Centre — run by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service
Central Stores Complex
Foresterhill Health Centre
National Hyperbaric Centre
Anchor Centre for haematology, oncology and radiotherapy is on site but will be open in 2023.

The main entrance to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Medical wards at the Infirmary
The Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital

External links

Map of Foresterhill Archived 9 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine, provided by NHS Grampian

References

^ ^a ^b Sometimes written as Forresterhill
^ "Rannsaich an Stòr-dàta Briathrachais Gàidhlig". www2.smo.uhi.ac.uk.
^ University of Aberdeen (1 August 2006). "First step towards state-of-the-art medical teaching and learning centre".
^ Gorsky M (2004). "'Threshold of a New Era': The Development of an Integrated Hospital System in Northeast Scotland, 1900–39". Social History of Medicine. 17 (2): 247–267. doi:10.1093/shm/17.2.247.
^ "Location of Teaching". Division of Medical and Dental Education, University of Aberdeen. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2009.

[name-1] Sometimes written as Forresterhill

[2] "Rannsaich an Stòr-dàta Briathrachais Gàidhlig". www2.smo.uhi.ac.uk.

[3] University of Aberdeen (1 August 2006). "First step towards state-of-the-art medical teaching and learning centre".

[4] Gorsky M (2004). "'Threshold of a New Era': The Development of an Integrated Hospital System in Northeast Scotland, 1900–39". Social History of Medicine. 17 (2): 247–267. doi:10.1093/shm/17.2.247.

[5] "Location of Teaching". Division of Medical and Dental Education, University of Aberdeen. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2009.

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