Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
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This hospital is part of Lothian NHS Board
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Address & description
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh has moved to its present location in Little France and provides patients with state-of-the-art medical care, unrivalled anywhere in Europe. The new facility allows patients to be treated in a more up-to-date, comfortable and well-equipped environment, providing a high standard of care. The hospital provides a number of services on a national basis, including liver transplantation.
The hospital's transplant unit has started the first adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant programme. Within NHS Lothian, the Royal Infirmary currently has no patients waiting more than nine months for in-patient or day case treatment, and the trust meets the six-month maximum waiting time for both outpatients and inpatients/day cases as of the end of calendar year 2005. This was achieved by the combined efforts of all staff working together in teams committed to improving patient care.
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Accident & Emergency services at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
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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| Beta blocker | N/A | N/A |
| Statins | N/A | N/A |
| ACE inhibitor | N/A | N/A |
| Clopidogrel | N/A | N/A |