On your left, look for the long, pale, modern building with narrow dark windows and crisp, boxy corners sitting right along the road.
This is the Aberdeen Community Health and Care Village, or as locals often shorten it, the Health Village... which sounds cozy until you remember it’s mostly about appointments. The plan was announced in 2010, and by December 2013 this £15 million complex opened-roughly £21 million in today’s money-run by NHS Grampian. It also made a small bit of Scottish construction history: it was the first healthcare project finished under the Scottish Futures Trust “hub” model, meant to get public buildings delivered without endless faff.
Inside, it’s built to handle around 700 patients a day, with 275 rooms: dental suites, minor procedure rooms, and consulting spaces for everything from physio and podiatry to radiology and sexual health. Since 2014, endoscopy joined the list too. And it’s not just treatment-there’s a strong education side for patients, carers, and healthcare staff.
Keep an eye out for the big mural started in 2021 by Fanakapan for NuArt... street art, meeting healthcare, very Aberdeen.
When you’re set, City Hospital is about a 9-minute walk heading east.
