Perth Royal Infirmary

Perth Royal Infirmary is a district hospital in  h/PerthScotland Perth The Royal Infirmary serves a population of around 182,000 across the City of Perth and the wider Perth and Kinross area. It is managed by NHS Tayside.

History
Perth Royal infirmary has its origins in the Perth City and County Infirmary. This Grecian style building was designed by William Macdonald Mackenzie, with the original cost of the land and buildings being £6812-15-3 ½d. The building of the hospital was funded by public subscription and it opened on 1 October 1838. The old hospital building became a Red Cross Hospital during the First World War and the home of Perth County Council in the 1920s.[2] It was converted into the A K Bell Public Library in 1991.[3]

Perth Royal Infirmary The current Perth Royal Infirmary was built on a site on Glasgow Road between 1912 and 1914. An extension containing operating theatres and kitchens was added between 1934 and 1935.[4] The Accident & Emergency department was added in 1993 and the hospital became a University Teaching Hospital in 2006.[5]

Developments completed in 2009 included a new 10-bed Macmillan cancer hospice costing £4.5 million,[6] the demolition of the listed Cornhill House to allow room for expansion[7] and the creation of a £2 million dialysis unit and a £1.7 million haematology and oncology facility.[8]

The archives of Perth Royal Infirmary are held by Archive Services, University of Dundee as part of the NHS Tayside Archive