Altnagelvin Area Hospital is an acute hospital which offers a range of services, including a 24-hour Accident and Emergency Department and is one of Northern Ireland’s five designated cancer units. It has 472 inpatient beds and 36 day case beds.
Altnagelvin Area Hospital is currently undergoing a major redevelopment programme and information regarding location of services, specialty wards will be subject to change over the lifetime of the project.
The main hospital building consists of a tower block with a number of adjoining new extensions accommodating the outpatients department, day case unit, medical imaging, theatres, surgical wards, maternity ward, oncology unit, physiotherapy department. There are also separate buildings such as the Renal Unit, Spruce House, Anderson House, Breast Screening Unit and the laboratories and pharmacy building. These are all signposted throughout the site. See a full list of services available below or visit the Services section.
There are a number of entrances to the hospital:
North Wing Entrance (main entrance)
Outpatients Department
Day Case Unit
Accident and Emergency Department (Rear)
South Wing (Rear)
From 9.30 pm, access to the hospital is via the Accident and Emergency entrance only.
All wards / departments are signposted throughout the hospital. If you require assistance, please ask at the reception desk which is located in the front hall.
Further Resources
- Getting to Altnagelvin Area Hospital
- Facilities
- Disabled Access Routes, Outpatients Department, Altnagelvin
Services delivered at this location
- 16+ Pathway Service
- Acute Care at Home
- Adult Safeguarding
- Advice leaflets for fracture patients discharged from Emergency Department
- Anaesthetics
- Antenatal Information
- Audiology and Hearing Aid Services
- Bereavement Care
- Breastfeeding Information
- Cardio-Respiratory Investigations Unit
- Carers Support Service
- Children’s Diabetes Service
- Consultant Led Diabetes Clinics
- Critical Care
- Diabetes Inpatient services
- Diabetes Services
- Eating Disorder Service
- Emergency Care and Medicine Services
- Emergency Department
- Endoscopy Services
- Enhanced Intermediate Care
- Family Liaison Service
- Gateway Service
- Haematology Services
- Head and Neck Services
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Service
- Labour Information
- Long Term Conditions Management
- Macmillan Health and Well Being Campus at Altnagelvin
- Maternity Services
- Maternity Services Tour
- Neonatal
- North West Centre for Neurological Rehabilitation (Formerly Spruce House)
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Therapy
- Older People’s Mental Health Services
- Ophthalmology and Optometry
- Organ Donation
- Orthoptics
- Orthotics
- Paediatric Services
- Parents Support Group
- Pathology
- Patient Access
- Pharmacists
- Physical Health Psychology Service
- Physiotherapy
- Podiatry
- Postnatal Information
- Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention(PPCI)
- Radiology
- Renal Services
- Respiratory Services
- Rheumatology Service
- Secondary Care Services
- Self Directed Support
- Specialist Palliative Care
- Speech and Language Therapy – Adult Service
- Stroke Services
- Surgery and Anaesthetic Services
- Surgery Service
- Trauma and Orthopaedic Patient Information
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Treatment Room Service
- Urology Services
- Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
Tel: (028) 7134 5171