The National University Hospital provides many kinds of services not provided elsewhere in the country. In recent years, the hospital has acquired various highly developed equipment for research and operations, such as a linear accelerator for cancer treatment, a lithotriptor, which crushes urinary stones with shock waves, and a magnetic resonance imaging machine (MRI) for diagnostic imaging. Following are examples of specialized wards not available elsewhere in the country.

     The Maternity Ward at the National University Hospital is equipped with the best available equipment being the only maternity ward in the capital area. Women from all over the country come here to give birth if they or their children are at risk. Over 60.000 children have been born in the maternity ward at the National University Hospital since it was opened in 1930. Every year just under 3.000 children are born here, which is almost 70% of all neonates in the country. Life expectancy of newborn children in Iceland is among the highest in the world.

     The National University Hospital's Fertility Ward was opened in 199l. The results are good and over one hundred children are born every year following an in vitro fertilization. The operation has expanded with recently improved housing and equipment for intracytoplasmic sperm injection to fertilize eggs with the aid of microscope.

    The Pediatric Ward at the National University Hospital is the largest and most specialized ward for children in the country. The Emergency Ward at the National University Hospital receives 4.500 - 5.000 children every year and  2.500 to 3.000 children are hospitalized. In the children's operating room, the only one of its kind in the country, over 1.000 operations are carried out every year. A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is equipped with the best available equipment and serves the whole country.

     The National University Hospital's Children's and Adolescents' Psychiatric Department serves children and teenagers under the age of 18. Most come for diagnosis and treatment to an outpatients ward but the department also provides 24-hour care.

     At the Oncology Ward a comprehensive individual treatment is emphasized. An outpatients ward provides chemotherapy and support, as well as a follow-up for radiation and/or chemotherapy. Radiation is given in the radiation ward. Inpatients receive treatment and nursing and palliative care is provided for dying patients.

     At the Haemodialysis Ward continuous ambulant peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and haemodialysis treatment is provided, both for patients with acute and chronic kidney failure. The ward also supervises home service for those individuals who take care of their own dialysis at home, usually outside the capital area. Besides dialysis treatment plasmapheresis is also carried out in the ward.