The Leith Community Treatment Centre is a

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in Junction Place,

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. It is managed by

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History

The centre replaced various outpatient services previously based at the

Leith Hospital Leith Hospital was situated on Mill Lane in Leith, Edinburgh, and was a general hospital with adult medical and surgical wards, paediatric medical and surgical wards, a casualty department and a wide range of out-patient services. It closed in 1 ...

, Mill Lane Medical centre, the

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and others, opened in June 2004 and cost £8.5 million. It was the first Community Treatment Centre of its kind in Scotland and provides services to children and adults living in the North East of Edinburgh and Leith. Consultants from Edinburgh hospitals such as the Western General, the

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and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children attend the centre regularly. Patients are referred here by hospital consultants or their local general practitioner. Various community healthcare teams also use the centre as a base - for example social workers, midwives, community healthcare teams, school nurses psychiatric nurses, paediatric speech and language therapists. The centre won an award in October 2014 for introducing a more patient-friendly endoscopy service, which requires no sedation or aftercare. In December 2016 Deputy Health Minister

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described the centre as "an excellent model for how a community hospital can work in an urban setting to provide a range of health and social care services".

References

External links

Leith Community Treatment Centre
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