Leeds
Leeds General Infirmary is a specialist regional centre for a number of complex conditions, along with providing many general acute hospital services.
The Infirmary has one of the most diverse and architecturally contrasting sites of any hospital in the country.
Its newest part is the Jubilee Building, opened in 1998, which houses a range of services including an Accident and Emergency department, intensive care facilities, state of the art operating theatres and a high-tech high dependency unit. It also brings together some of the country's leading experts in caring for patients with serious brain injuries and heart and lung problems.
The Yorkshire Heart Centre provides services for children and adults with serious heart conditions and through the hospital's partnership with Leeds University has trained some of the world's most renowned heart surgeons.
The centralisation of neurology in 2005 from St. James's University Hospital means the LGI also continues to lead the way in brain surgery.
A helicopter deck on the Jubilee Building has seen thousands of flights by the Yorkshire Air Ambulance bringing sick patients from all across the Yorkshire region and beyond to be treated by experts at LGI.
Work started in 2009 to centralise children’s hospital services at LGI as part of a major city-wide reconfiguration scheme involving investment of up to £35 million. Services based in the Jubilee Building and the nearby Clarendon Wing will together will create one of the largest facilities for sick children anywhere in the country.