[1] The centre replaced various outpatient services previously based at the Leith Hospital, Mill Lane Medical centre, the Eastern General Hospital and others, opened in June 2004[2] and cost £8.5 million.

[3] It was the first Community Treatment Centre of its kind in Scotland and provides services to children and adults living in the North East of Edinburgh and Leith.

[3] Various community healthcare teams also use the centre as a base - for example social workers, midwives,[4] community healthcare teams, school nurses psychiatric nurses, paediatric speech and language therapists.

[3] The centre won an award in October 2014 for introducing a more patient-friendly endoscopy service, which requires no sedation or aftercare.

[5] In December 2016 Deputy Health Minister Lewis Macdonald described the centre as "an excellent model for how a community hospital can work in an urban setting to provide a range of health and social care services".