Royal Victoria Hospital | |
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Belfast Health and Social Care Trust | |
Geography | |
Location | 274 Grosvenor Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Coordinates | 54°35′41″N 5°57′14″W / 54.5947°N 5.9538°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Health and Social Care |
Type | District General |
Affiliated university | |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes (Major Trauma Centre) |
History | |
Opened | 1797 |
Links | |
Website | belfasttrust |
The Royal Victoria Hospital commonly known as "the Royal", the "RVH" or "the Royal Belfast", is a hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is managed by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. The hospital has a Regional Virus Centre, which is one of the four laboratories in the United Kingdom on the World Health Organization (WHO) list of laboratories able to perform PCR for rapid diagnosis of influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in humans.[1]