Ross Memorial Hospital (Dingwall)

Services

Rehabilitation ward

phone 01349 868 767

An inpatient unit of 5 beds (Monday to Friday only). Multi-professional assessment, treatment, monitoring and ongoing support of patients suffering from rheumatic disease. See Rheumatology.

General medicine

9 inpatient beds (in use 24/7). Aiming to provide high quality, comprehensive service to patients who are primarily, but not exclusively, elderly. Patients may be admitted directly from home or transferred from Raigmore Hospital following a period of acute care, for active rehabilitation. Patients are cared for by a multi-disciplinary team of professionals comprising nurses, an advanced nurse practitioner, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, speech and language therapists, podiatrists and social workers.

Out of hours service

Patients in the Dingwall area phoning NHS24 may be asked to attend the doctor based at the Primary Care Emergency Centre in the hospital.

Allied Health Professionals (AHP) team

The team comprises physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and dieticians. They have an active role in the general ward and Highland Rheumatology Unit and also see outpatients.

Radiology facilities

These include X-ray, ultrasound and DXA scanner. The hospital is able to offer diagnostic facilities for both casualty and outpatient departments. The DXA scanner is a Highland-wide resource used in the diagnosis of osteoporosis.

Associated services

• outpatients seen by medical and nursing staff, including nurse specialist 
• initiation and monitoring of new treatments for inflammatory disease
• infusion suite
• community dental service
• Puffin hydrotherapy pool
• patient education

There is no minor injuries service at Ross Memorial Hospital. Services are run from nearby County Community Hospital, Invergordon and Raigmore Hospital A&E, Inverness.

Outpatient clinics

• AAA screening
• audiology
• cardiac rehabilitation
• clinical psychology
• community midwives
• community paediatric
• diabetic retinopathy screening
• diabetic specialist nursing
• dietetic
• ear, nose and throat (ENT)
• health visitors
• medical
• medicine for the elderly
• multiple sclerosis (MS) specialist nursing
• occupational health
• orthodontic
• orthopaedic
• paediatric
• psychiatric
• rehabilitation
• rheumatology
• Scotcap endoscopy service
• speech and language therapy
• stoma
• vaccination including for babies, children and young people