Public Services
Waste management is handled by the local authority, Fife Council. Kerbside recycling operates in the town. A three-bin collection is in place for the majority of residents. Kirkcaldy has one recycling centre and several recycling points, all operated by Fife Council. Non-hazardous waste is sent to landfill at Lochhead near Dunfermline, and Lower Melville Wood, near Ladybank.
Health care is supplied by NHS Fife, who headquartered at Hayfield House. The Victoria Hospital serves as the accident and emergency hospital. A new £152.5 million 530,000 sq ft (49,000 m2) extension to the hospital was completed in February 2012. The new extension contains a maternity unit, eleven operating theatres, 528 new beds, and a relocated Accident and Emergency Department. Within the grounds of the hospital, a Maggie's Centre, under the name of Maggie's Fife, specialises in care for cancer patients. The centre, which was completed between 2004 and 2006, was the first building to be designed by Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born architect in the United Kingdom. Whyteman's Brae Hospital, which is also part of the complex, serves psychiatric and elderly patients.
Statutory emergency fire and rescue services are provided by the Fife Fire and Rescue Service from its station on Dunnikier Road. Policing in Kirkcaldy is operated by Fife Constabulary. The headquarters of the Kirkcaldy area is on St Brycedale Avenue. Kirkcaldy is served by the East Central Region of the Scottish Ambulance Service, which covers Tayside, Forth Valley, and Fife. There are two ambulance stations in the town, one on Whyteman's Brae and the other at the Victoria Hospital on Hayfield Road.
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