A NAME change at Scotland's newest hospital was budgeted for before it opened, the health board has said.
There will be no additional costs to replace signage at the recently renamed Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, previously known as the South Glasgow University Hospital.
Money had been already been set aside in the signage budget NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde because hospital bosses were hopeful of gaining a royal title.
The new name was officially unveiled by the Queen last week during a series of engagements in Scotland, which included a visit to the new £842 million super-hospital in Govan.
A spokeswoman for NHSGGC said: "We were granted the honour of Royal titles for these new facilities after the operational opening.
"At the time of opening its doors to patients the hospital had to have an operational name and signage however we were hoping that Royal titles would be granted and as such the potential for a changed to the final signage was taken into account and was built into our budgetary planning.
"At the time of placing our order for signage the specification was reduced so that if the names were changed costs would be minimised. Despite the changes to signage that we will now make it will still come in within the original signage budget that we set as part of the overall project cost."
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