The Royal Victoria Infirmary

Name :

The Royal Victoria Infirmary

Address  :

Queen Victoria Road

Town  :

Newcastle Upon Tyne

State  :

Tyne and Wear

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

NE1 4LP

Phone  :

0191 233 6161

Fax  :

0191 201 0155

Web URL  :


Description

Weve been providing healthcare to the communities of Newcastle and the North East for over 250 years But theres nothing oldfashioned about our services As part of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the healthcare services we provide are among the safest and most advanced in the country

They range from emergency medicine like our Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic to our pioneering burns unit and our innovative dermatology unit the sole provider in the region of the leading edge Mohs micrographic surgery for skin cancer

Expert care from birth through to old age

The maternity department at the RVI is one of the UKs largest helping to bring over 5700 babies into the world every year And with our consultantled service you know youre in the safest hands possible however your pregnancy develops

At the same time we understand the often very different needs of our elderly patients Our Falls and Syncope Service the largest of its kind in Europe helps to relieve the stress and discomfort of balance blackout and dizziness so that our patients can continue to enjoy mobile and independent lives Our Ophthalmology department has one of the UKs largest cataract treatment centres but also offers the most advanced treatments of agerelated eye problems such as ARMD Age Related Macular Degeneration the major cause of blindness in the UK

Healthcare with a personal touch

Whatever your reasons for visiting us well take the very best care of you Our aim is not just to deliver clinically advanced healthcare but also to meet the wider individual needs of all our patients so you receive personal care at all times from every member of our team
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