With 860 inpatient beds, 25 wards, and 16 operating theatres, it was Scotland's largest ever NHS construction project at the time but has been surpassed by the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital amongst others.

Built at a cost of £300 million on the site of the old Royal Scottish National Hospital, it opened to its first patients in 2010.

The hospital is the first in Scotland to have a Forestry Commission ranger on site, whose job is to encourage the use of the 70-acre (28 ha) grounds formerly belonging to the Larbert House estate.

The hospital also employs robots to carry out tasks such as removing waste, delivering food to wards, and cleaning operating theatres.

[8] Set in 70 acres (28 ha) of woodland,[10] the hospital has 860 inpatient beds spread over four floors,[11] 25 wards and 16 operating theatres.

[14] The hospital provides services for the 300,000 residents of the Forth Valley area, stretching from Killin in the north to Bo'ness in the south.

[22] The grounds were transformed into a "green oasis" for the use of those using the hospital and the local community with the help of a £101,000 grant from the Forestry Commission Scotland.

[35] It is estimated that in reducing the number of errors and requiring less staff time the system, which cost £400,000 to install, has cut the hospital's drug bill by £700,000.