Editing Belfast (section)

=== Hospitals ===

The [[Belfast Health and Social Care Trust|Belfast Health & Social Care Trust]] is one of five trusts that were created on 1 April 2007 by the [[Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety|Department of Health]]. Belfast contains most of Northern Ireland's regional specialist centres.<ref>{{cite web |title=Review of Public Administration: Consultation on Draft Legislation To Establish Five New Integrated Health And Social Services Trusts |url=http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/hpssreview-trust-consultation-document.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927114140/http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/hpssreview-trust-consultation-document.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2007 |access-date=17 September 2007 |publisher=DHSSPS }}</ref>

The Royal Hospitals site in west Belfast (junction of Grosvenor and Falls roads) contains two hospitals. The [[Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast|Royal Victoria Hospital]] (its origins in a number of successive institutions, beginning in 1797 with The Belfast Fever Hospital)<ref>{{cite web |last=Bridges |first=Barry |title=Belfast Medical Students |url=https://www.ums.ac.uk/bmsa/bmsa_med.pdf |access-date=3 April 2019 |publisher=Queen's University of Belfast |page=14 }}</ref> provides both local and regional services. Specialist services include cardiac surgery, critical care and the Regional Trauma Centre.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Belfast Health and Social Care Trust |title=Royal Victorian Hospital |url=https://belfasttrust.hscni.net/hospitals/rvh/ }}</ref> The Children's Hospital ([[Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children]]) provides general hospital care for children in Belfast and provides most of the paediatric regional specialities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Belfast Health and Social Care Trust |title=Children's Hospital |url=https://belfasttrust.hscni.net/hospitals/childrens/ }}</ref>

The [[Belfast City Hospital]] (evolved from the 1841 [[Belfast Union Workhouse]] and infirmary)<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 March 2021 |title=Video: Documentary charts Belfast City Hospital evolution from 19th century workhouse 'fever hospital' to 2020 Nightingale unit |url=https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2021/03/22/news/documentary-charts-belfast-city-hospital-evolution-from-19th-century-workhouse-fever-hospital-to-2020-nightingale-unit-2262563/ |access-date=16 February 2024 |website=The Irish News }}</ref> on the Lisburn Road is the regional specialist centre for haematology and is home to a major cancer centre.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Morrison |first1=PJ |year=2006 |title=Improving cancer statistics – a new cancer centre for Northern Ireland |journal=The Ulster Medical Journal |volume=75 |issue=2 |page=110 |pmc=1891734 |pmid=16755938 }}</ref> The Mary G McGeown Regional Nephrology Unit at the [[Belfast City Hospital|City Hospital]] is the kidney transplant centre and provides regional renal services for Northern Ireland.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 2006 |title=Belfast City Hospital: About the Unit |url=http://www.renal.org/bapn/bapn-information-and-resources/centres/lists/centres/belfast |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231214226/http://www.renal.org/bapn/bapn-information-and-resources/centres/lists/centres/belfast |archive-date=31 December 2015 |access-date=24 May 2007 |publisher=The Renal Association }}</ref>
[[Musgrave Park Hospital]] (1920) in south Belfast specialises in [[Orthopedic surgery|orthopaedics]], [[rheumatology]], [[sports medicine]] and [[Rehabilitation psychology|rehabilitation]]. It is home to Northern Ireland's first Acquired Brain Injury Unit.<ref>{{cite news |date=15 May 2006 |title=TRH open Northern Ireland's first Regional Acquired Brain Injury Unit |url=http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/newsandgallery/news/trh_open_northern_ireland_s_first_regional_acquired_brain_in_778.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307071451/http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/newsandgallery/news/trh_open_northern_ireland_s_first_regional_acquired_brain_in_778.html |archive-date=7 March 2007 |access-date=6 May 2007 |publisher=The Prince of Wales }}</ref>

The [[Mater Infirmorum Hospital|Mater Hospital]] (founded in 1883 by the [[Sisters of Mercy]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ulster Medical Society: Mater Infirmorum Hospital |url=https://www.ums.ac.uk/mih.html |access-date=16 February 2024 |website=ums.ac.uk }}</ref> on the Crumlin Road provides a wide range of services, including acute inpatient, emergency and maternity services, to north Belfast and the surrounding areas.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Belfast Health and Social Care Trust |title=Mater Hospital |url=https://belfasttrust.hscni.net/hospitals/mater/ }}</ref>

The [[Ulster Hospital]], Upper Newtownards Road, [[Dundonald, County Down|Dundonald]], on the eastern edge of the city, first founded as the Ulster Hospital for Women and Sick Children in 1872,<ref name="journal">{{cite journal |last1=Logan |first1=H |date=August 1987 |title=The Ulster Hospital &ndash; a short history. |journal=The Ulster Medical Journal |volume=56 Suppl |issue=Suppl |pages=S57-64 |pmc=2448186 |pmid=3328369 }}</ref> is the major acute hospital for the [[South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust]]. It delivers a full range of outpatient, inpatient and daycare medical and surgical services.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ulster Hospital: New £115m acute services block is hailed as a game-changer |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/ulster-hospital-new-115m-acute-services-block-is-hailed-as-a-game-changer/41019352.html |access-date=3 May 2023 |work=BelfastTelegraph.co.uk |issn=0307-1235 }}</ref>