Emergencies in Edinburgh

In an emergency dial 999 for an ambulance or for the police or fire departments (no coins are needed for emergency calls made from pay phones). The accident and emergency department of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary is at Lauriston Place in the city center, though the main buildings are 6 mi to the southeast in an area known as Little France.

You can find out which pharmacy is open late on a given night by looking at the notice posted on every pharmacy door. A pharmacy—or dispensing chemist, as it is called here—is easily identified by its sign, showing a green cross on a white background. Boots, a large British chain, is open weekdays from 8 AM to 9 PM, Saturday from 8 to 6, and Sunday from 10:30 to 4:30.

To retrieve lost property, try the Lothian and Borders police headquarters, open weekdays from 9 to 5. If you lose something on a public bus, contact Lothian Buses, open weekdays from 10 to 1:30.

Hospital

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (Dalkeith Rd., Little France. 0131/536-1000).

Late-Night Pharmacy

Boots (48 Shandwick Pl., west end of Princes St., West End. 0131/225-6757).

Lost & Found

Lothian and Borders police headquarters (Fettes Ave., Inverleith. 0131/311-3131). Lothian Buses (55 Annandale St., New Town. 0131/558-8858).