Hospitals in Brighton and Hove

The Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital (the Alex), on the campus of the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, is a leading centre for paediatric and neonatal surgery. It leads in minimally invasive surgery and 70 per cent of children undergoing surgery are treated as day patients. It also provides paediatric ENT, orthopaedic, ophthalmology and maxillofacial surgery.

The Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH) in Brighton, part of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, provides district general hospital services to local populations in and around the City of Brighton and Hove. In addition it is the centre for emergency and tertiary care. Specialised services provided at the RSCH include paediatrics (in the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital), ophthalmology (at the Sussex Eye Hospital) cardiac, cancer, renal, infectious diseases and HIV medicine. 

The Sussex Nuffield Hospital in Brighton provides a range of private healthcare services from its 56-bed facility. The hospital has four operating theatres. Two of these are major operating theatres equipped with laminar flow. This is a special clean air system which reduces the risk of infection during operation. Although the hospital does not perform surgery on children under three years of age, it is able to operate on those between the ages of three and twelve.  The Sussex Eye Hospital, on the Royal Sussex County Hospital campus in Brighton, is a specialist eye hospital providing outpatient, day surgery and inpatient ophthalmic services and a dedicated ophthalmic emergency department.