Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary

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Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary is the main hospital in Dumfries. The hospital serves both the town of Dumfries and the entire catchment area of South West Scotland, with a population of at least 147,000. The hospital is run by NHS Dumfries and Galloway (also known as Dumfries & Galloway Health Board). It is a supporter of the Princess Royal Trust for the Carers Hospital project. It has 337 staffed beds.FacilitiesServicesThe Royal Infirmary is the principal secondary care referral centre for the region and provides medical and surgical care notably within the fields of accident and emergency, paediatric, ENT, Intensive Care and obstetrics and gynaecology. All departments are actively involved in local and national research, with consultant posts providing local and regional services for renal medicine, haematology, rheumatology, respiratory, rehabilitation, cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, ophthalmology, stroke and elderly medicine. Visiting physicians provide a specialist oncology service. Surgical services include orthopaedics, general, vascular, ear, nose and throat surgery as well as an Ophthalmology Day Surgery Unit. A Palliative Care service is run from within the integrated Alexandra unit. The radiology department is modern and provides basic X-Ray, computerised tomography and a magnetic resonance imaging service. Radiology, haematology, oncology and cardio-thoracic cases are linked via video-telecommunications to weekly multidisciplinary meetings hosted by specialist teams based in both Glasgow and Edinburgh teaching hospitals for further discussion and management plans. An extension including a day surgery unit and the Cresswell maternity ward has been added in recent years to support the region's need for high turnaround day-case procedures and ante-natal/post-natal care. The Cresswell maternity ward contains a neonatal unit with rapid transfer protocols for critically ill children requiring life support at specialist centres throughout the country as required.