Victoria Hospital is a large hospital situated to the north of the town centre in Kirkcaldy, in Fife, Scotland. As one of two main hospitals in Fife, this serves both the town and surrounding Mid-Fife area. It is managed by NHS Fife. History The original hospital in the town was a cottage hospital which was situated to the east of the town and which opened in 1890. After the Second World War, there was demand for a more centralised and bigger hospital to be built in the town to be able to deal with the strains caused by a burgeoning population. The original site proposed for the new hospital was that occupied by the cottage hospital, but a lack of space for the expansion caused the plans to be abandoned. A site was eventually chosen around the local sanatorium and fever hospital. Construction of the new Victoria Hospital began in 1955 and was completed in 1967. The hospital was threatened with the possible loss of its accident and emergency department in 2005. These services were to be moved to Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline but the proposal was withdrawn after severe criticism. A major new wing to the south of the current tower block was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2009. The new wing included 500 beds together with eleven operating theatres and a new accident and emergency department. The area surrounding the hospital was altered to include signal controlled junctions, a new mini-roundabout and new car parking spaces at both the north and south ends of the hospital. The works, which were designed by the Building Design Partnership and undertaken by Balfour Beatty at a cost of £170 million, were completed in summer 2012. The new wing was officially opened in August 2012 by Nicola Sturgeon, although services had transferred to the new wing in three separate phases. Initially several services based on the Victoria site had relocated there in December 2011. Services then transferred across from Forth Park Hospital, Kirkcaldy, in January 2012, followed in the same month by a number of services from Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline. From January 2012, all of Fife's accident and emergency services were located at the Victoria Hospital. Services The hospital consists of three wings: East, West and South and a main tower block. An adjacent Maggie's Centre is also located within the grounds. In 2012 a new wing