Royal honour for Scotland’s newest hospital facilities

Her Majesty The Queen has officially opened the new south Glasgow hospitals and Teaching and Learning Centre at a special ceremony attended by 300 guests.

Following the official opening ceremony the three centres of excellence will be named:

• The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow
• The Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow
• The Queen Elizabeth Teaching and Learning Centre – Stratified Medicine Scotland

Accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, Her Majesty toured The Royal Hospital for Children and The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and met with patients and staff.

A ceremony followed when Her Majesty unveiled commemorative plaques for the three new facilities revealing their new names before being presented with a posy of flowers by Amy Carmichael (10), a patient at The Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow.

Andrew Robertson, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Chairman, said: “It is a great honour to our staff and to the patients we serve that Her Majesty and His Royal Highness visited these magnificent new facilities today and granted us the honour of Royal names for these centres of excellence.

“In delivering this project we bring to fulfilment the clinical strategy for hospital services in Greater Glasgow that was agreed in 2002. Throughout this journey, successive Scottish Governments have been wholly supportive – most recently in providing £842M of public funding for the full cost of these two state-of-the-art hospitals.

“The completion of this project by our main construction partner, Brookfield Multiplex, under budget and ahead of schedule also gave us the opportunity to contribute to other projects on this campus. Most notable is our partnership with the University of Glasgow. Together we have created The Queen Elizabeth Teaching and Learning Centre and related research facilities to realise our shared vision of world class facilities to train the clinicians of tomorrow and develop medicines and technologies to transform patient treatment and disease prevention.”

Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland said: “The new hospitals are some of the most modern and best designed healthcare facilities in the world and I am delighted to mark the official opening today.

“This £842M development was Scotland’s biggest ever hospital building project, part of over £2Bn of Government investment in Scotland’s health infrastructure and will transform healthcare for patients and provide world class training for staff.”

Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, said: “It is fantastic to mark the official opening of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Children. The world-leading technology at these state-of-the-art hospitals will help free up staff time and improve the patient’s experience of hospital.

“Now that staff and patients are settling in to the new hospitals it is clear that these fantastic facilities are already beginning to transform patient care.”

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