§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of hospitals in Scotland which have been closed during the past two years, giving their location and the number of beds in each.
§ Mr. FairgrieveIn the period from 1 July 1979 to 30 June 1981 health boards closed hospitals as shown below. In every case the facilities which these hospitals provided have been replaced elsewhere.
number of beds Argyll and Clyde Health Board Broadstone Jubilee Hospital, Port Glasgow 22 Duncan McPherson Hospital, Gourock 14 Gateside Hospital, Greenock 132 Greenock Eye Infirmary 15 Greenock Royal Infirmary 132 Lanarkshire Health Board Shotts Hospital 40 Lothian Health Board Dunbar Cottage Hospital * Tayside Health Board Charleton Maternity Home, Montrose 19 Sidlaw Hospital, Auchterhouse 44 Kings Cross (West) Hospital, Dundee † Note: The bed figures shown are the approved bed complements at the time of closure. * Holiday home used by mentally handicapped with accomodation for approximately 30. † Reserve function as isolation unit for serious highly infectious diseases, used only twice in the last twenty years.