Established in 1938, the hospital served as the principal hospital for the British in the Far East and was known as the British Military Hospital. During the Battle of Singapore in February 1942, the hospital was the scene of a massacre by Japanese soldiers of the wounded British and some of the medical staff. After World War II Alexandra Hospital remained as one of the most modern hospitals in Singapore right to the 1970s.
In its heyday, Alexandra Hospital was an institution that adopted cutting-edge medical technology and was the first hospital in Southeast Asia to successfully perform limb re-attachment to a patient. Alexandra Hospital possessed several well-known medical expertise. These include:
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust runs the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, Kidderminster Hospital & Treatment Centre, and Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester.
In November 2013 further proposals to reduce services in Redditch were opposed by Redditch, Bromsgrove and Stratford councils who claimed "The removal of services from Redditch will leave what is already a vulnerable society, with the worst accessibility to health services in the region, and will introduce substantial inequalities with the populations of Redditch, Bromsgrove, Studley, Alcester and neighbouring areas being significantly worse off than all other areas in Worcestershire."
The Royal Alexandra Hospital is the main hospital in Paisley serving a large catchment area as much as 200,000 from Renfrewshire, stretching all the way to Oban and Argyll. The hospital is owned and run by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, previously NHS Argyll & Clyde. The hospital was officially opened by Princess Alexandra in May 1988.
Facilities
The hospital has 760 staffed beds.
Royal Alexandra provides the local catchment area with many services. These include: an A&E department; psychiatric; general medical and surgical services; trauma and emergency surgery centre; maternity unit and a children's ward, although it is still undecided whether the children's ward will be shut down.
The hospital contains the only consultant-led maternity unit for the whole south Clyde area, after this was done away with at Inverclyde Royal Hospital. Both Inverclyde Royal and the Vale of Leven Hospital retain midwife-led community maternity units. The hospital also received some re-located services from Vale of Leven Hospital in Alexandria as part of a shuffle. Nonetheless, other services from this hospital will re-locate to Southern General in Glasgow to help balance this out fairly.
They operate 678 beds, and care for 450,000 patients annually. The RAH is home to the Women's Health Centre, the Regional Eye Centre and the Aboriginal Health program, in addition to a wide range of child, adult and geriatric programs and services.
History
The Royal Alexandra Hospital is named after Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), consort of King Edward VII, the King of Canada from 1901 to 1910. It was granted the "Royal" prefix by Edward in 1907.
The trust, which runs RoyalSussex CountyHospital, Worthing Hospital and Royal AlexandraChildren's Hospital among others, was also the first in Britain to replace 'breastfeeding' with the term 'chestfeeding' as part of a drive to be more inclusive.
A five-year-old boy has been left with life-changing injuries following a horrific mauling by an XL Bully... Thankfully, after eventually escaping the jaws of the dog, Teddy was rushed to RoyalAlexandraHospital as blood poured from his wounds ... Glasgow.
The RoyalCollege of Nursing confirmed 61 per cent of its members who took part in a ballot voted in favour of the suggested 5.5 per cent uplift in wages ... .
A 33-year-old man who was a passenger in the car and a 59-year-old man who was driving the van were taken to Paisley’s RoyalAlexandraHospital for assessment ... The 57-year-old driver of the Scania was taken to Galloway Royal Infirmary as a precaution.
Some Albertans will be waiting longer for elective knee, hip and shoulder surgeries after changes to the University of Alberta's residency program ... .
