Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley
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This hospital is part of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
General hospital information
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Address & description
The Royal Alexandra Hospital is a busy district general hospital providing a full range of general hospital and maternity services from a modern facility on a 78-acre site in the town of Paisley. It serves a population of over 200,000 from a mixed urban and rural area. As well as providing healthcare to the people of Renfrewshire, it provides major trauma and emergency surgical care for Lomond and Argyll, stretching as far as Oban.
More than 2,300 staff operate over 600 beds, day case and outpatient services. There is a full 24-hour Accident & Emergency Service, an Intensive Care Unit, a High Dependency Unit and a Coronary care Unit. The approximate numbers of patients treated annually are: inpatients (38,000), Day Cases (14,000), Outpatients (121,000), Accident & Emergency (63, 000).
Hospital services include:- General Medicine
- Medicine for the Elderly
- Clinical Haematology
- Coronary Care
- Dermatology
- Neurology
- Paediatrics
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- General Surgery
- Urology
- Orthopaedics
- ENT
- Ophthalmology
- Palliative Care
- Plastic Surgery
- Orthodontics
- Anaesthetics
- Radiology
- Laboratory Specialties, such as Microbiology, Pathology, Biochemistry and Haematology.
Cancer services are provided by visiting Consultants. The overriding aim of staff is to ensure that the needs of those cared for are met with the highest standards. The hospital is fully committed to the training and ongoing professional development of all staff and students. Many healthcare professionals complete part of their training at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and work closely with education providers.
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Accident & Emergency services at Royal Alexandra Hospital
cardiac services (heart attack) |
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| Patients having thrombolytic treatment within 30 minutes of arriving at hospital |
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 The National Service Framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease (CHD) states that 75% of eligible heart attack patients in England should receive thrombolytic drugs within 30 minutes of arriving at hospital. Read more about this indicator.
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| Patients having thrombolytic treatment within 60 minutes of calling for help |
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This standard reflects the combined performance of the ambulance service, general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals and is the most relevant overall indicator of care of heart attack patients. It encourages collaborative working across all relevant NHS organisations, particularly between ambulance services and hospitals to reduce delays to thrombolytic treatment. The call for professional help will usually be direct to the ambulance service but may be to a GP or NHS Direct. The Department of Health has set NHS organisations in England the target of 68% of patients receiving thrombolytic treatment within 60 minutes of calling for professional help. Read more about this indicator
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| Primary angioplasty within 90 minutes of arrival at interventional centre door |
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An interim good practice standard of 90 minutes from arrival at an interventional hospital to the time when the blocked artery is reopened (door to balloon time) has been established for provision of primary angioplasty, based on international guidelines.
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| Patients discharged from hospital on secondary prevention medication | ||
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| Clopidogrel | N/A | N/A |