It is situated on the Foresterhill site, with the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Aberdeen Maternity Hospital and provides services to children across the North of Scotland.

The hospital has its origins in a private house at Castle Hill which opened in 1877.

[1] It moved to a new facility which was designed by William Kelly and opened on the Foresterhill site in 1929.

[1] After the hospital had been completely rebuilt to modern standards, it re-opened in January 2004.

[3] The hospital's performance against the four-hour target in emergency departments was 99.6% ranking third best in Scotland in August 2015.