This is a self-contained specialist unit of 16 beds and 6 Day Case chairs directly across the road from the main teaching hospital of the new medical school. It includes inpatient facilities for children. There is one ward sub-divided into larger and smaller areas including single rooms to facilitate flexibility of use. A new operating theatre suite opened in 2002 and includes a major and minor theatre, anaesthetic and recovery rooms and associated services. A new one stop cataract facility is now open.