Royal Edinburgh Hospital – mental health safe delivery of care inspection report: November 2025
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Document Type
Inspection reports
Mental health units
Summary
We carried out an unannounced inspection to Royal Edinburgh Hospital, NHS Lothian, on Tuesday 17 June to Thursday 19 June 2025 using our safe delivery of care inspection methodology. We inspected the following areas:
- Balcarres
- Braids
- Caanan
- Craiglockheart
- Cramond
- Divert suite
- Fairmile
- Harlaw
- Hawthorn
- Hermitage
- Margaret Duguid unit
- Meadows
- Merchiston
- Myreside
- Orchard
During our inspection, we:
- inspected the ward and hospital environment.
- observed staff practice and interactions with patients, such as during patient mealtimes.
- spoke with patients, visitors and ward staff.
- accessed patients’ health records, monitoring reports, policies and procedures.
Our findings
This inspection resulted in six areas of good practice, four recommendations and 21 requirements.