The Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital or RACH is a

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. It is situated on the

Foresterhill Foresterhill is an area in the city 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 ...

site, with the

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and

Aberdeen Maternity Hospital Aberdeen Maternity Hospital (AMH) is a specialist maternity hospital in Aberdeen, Scotland. Between 4,000 and 5,000 babies are born at AMH each year. The hospital is located in the Foresterhill area of Aberdeen and serves the region of Grampian a ...

and provides services to children across the North of Scotland. It is managed by

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History

The hospital has its origins in a private house at Castle Hill which opened in 1877. It was evacuated to Kepplestone House during the

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. It moved to a new facility which was designed by William Kelly and opened on the

site in 1928. After the hospital had been completely rebuilt to modern standards, it re-opened in January 2004. In 2012 the hospital revised its policy around the age of patients who could be admitted for care, raising the limit from 14 to 16 years of age.

Performance

The hospital's performance against the

four-hour target in emergency departments NHS targets are performance measures used by NHS England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and the Health and Social Care service in Northern Ireland. These vary by country but assess the performance of each health service against measures such as 5 hour ...

was 99.6% ranking third best in Scotland in August 2015.

References

External links

Archie Fund
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Childhood in Scotland NHS Scotland hospitals