Royal Blackburn Hospital

Details

Name :

Royal Blackburn Hospital

Address  :

Haslingden Road

Town  :

Blackburn

State  :

Lancashire

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

BB2 3HH

Phone  :

01254 263555

Fax  :

01254 294572

Web URL  :

Specialization
  • Anaesthesiology
  • Cardiology
  • Cardiothoracic Surgeon
  • Colon & Rectal Surgeon
  • Daibetes, Endocrinology
  • Dermatology
  • ENT
  • Gastro-enterology
  • General Surgeon
  • Hematologist
  • Histopathology
  • Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Neurologist
  • Obestetrician/Gynecologist
  • Oncologist
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics
  • Paediatrics
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Psychiatrist
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 668


Description

The Royal Blackburn hospital provides a full range of hospital services to adults and children This includes general and specialist medical and surgical services along with a full range of diagnostic eg MRI CT scanning and support services

The new Royal Blackburn Hospital opened in July 2006

In addition to the modern facilities within the first stage of the hospital the new building includes state of the art new inpatient facilities centralised outpatients department new operating theatres and Accident and Emergency Department
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