Foresterhill

{{short description|Area within Aberdeen, Scotland}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2017}}

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name = ForesterhillSometimes written as Forresterhill

| gaelic_name = Cnoc an Fhorsair{{Cite web|url=http://www2.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/faclair/sbg/lorg.php?faclair=sbg&seorsa=Beurla&facal=foresterhill&eis_saor=on&tairg=Lorg|title=Rannsaich an Stòr-dàta Briathrachais Gàidhlig|website=www2.smo.uhi.ac.uk}}

| scots_name = Foresterhill

| local_name =

| country = Scotland

| population =

| population_ref = Not applicable

| pushpin_map = Scotland Aberdeen

| pushpin_map_caption = Location within the Aberdeen City council area

| population_density =

| os_grid_reference = NJ917070

| coordinates = {{coord|57.1546|-2.1374|display=inline,title}}

| post_town = ABERDEEN

| postcode_area = AB

| postcode_district = AB25, AB16

| dial_code = 01224

| constituency_westminster = Aberdeen North

| unitary_scotland = Aberdeen City

| lieutenancy_scotland = Aberdeen

| constituency_scottish_parliament = Aberdeen Central

| website = [http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk aberdeencity.gov.uk]

}}

Foresterhill is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the site of the city's main hospitals (Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital and the Aberdeen Maternity Hospital), as well as the medical school and medical science departments of the University of Aberdeen. It is the largest hospital complex in Europe.{{cite web|url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/17716/|title=First step towards state-of-the-art medical teaching and learning centre|author=University of Aberdeen|date=2006-08-01}}

Foresterhill is situated at the highest point in the city, a site identified by Professor Matthew Hay in 1900. He had the vision of an integrated medical campus, with a combined hospital and medical school for the City of Aberdeen.{{cite journal|author=Gorsky M|title='Threshold of a New Era': The Development of an Integrated Hospital System in Northeast Scotland, 1900–39|journal=Social History of Medicine|volume=17|issue=2|pages=247–267|doi=10.1093/shm/17.2.247|year=2004}}

The site has its own helicopter landing site due to the hospitals' roles as tertiary hospitals for the North of Scotland and the rurality of Grampian as a catchment area, plus this is the primary emergency hospital for the offshore industries.