§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by health authority all hospitals which have (a) closed and (b) opened, indicating the numbers of beds involved, for each of the past five years.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe information requested is shown below.
Number of beds (a) Hospital closures 1979 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 Lothian Health Board Dunbar Cottage Hospital * Tayside Health Board Kings Cross (West) Hospital, Dundee † 1980 Lanarkshire Health Board Shorts Hospital 40 Tayside Health Board Charleton Maternity Home, Montrose 19 Sidlaw Hospital, Auchterhouse 44 1981 Greater Glasgow Health Board Carnbooth Children's Home, Glasgow 30 Homoeopathic Hospital for Children, Glasgow 30 Tayside Health Board Burghmuir Hospital, Perth 41 1982 Ayrshire and Arran Health Board Kilmarnock Infirmary 150 Torrance House, Kilmarnock 44 Tayside Health Board Strathmore Hospital, Blairgowrie 28 1983 Borders Health Board Peebles County Hospital 21 Peebles War Memorial Hospital 26 Greater Glasgow Health Board Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Glasgow 83 Shetland Health Board Brevik Hospital, Lerwick 43 Note: The bed figures shown are the approved bed complements at the time of closure.
The details provided refer only to complete hospitals taken out of use. Information in respect of partial closures and cases where there has been a change in use of NHS facilities is not held centrally.
* Holiday home used by mentally handicapped with accommodation 627W for approximately 30.
† Reserve function as isolation unit for serious highly infectious diseases, used only twice in the last twenty years.
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Number of beds (b) Hospital openings 1979 Greater Glasgow Health Board Belvidere Hospital—Phase I 30 Woodilee Hospital—Phase I 60 1980 Argyll and Clyde Health Board Johnstone Hospital 30 Grampian Health Board Woodend Geriatric Hospital 30 Greater Glasgow Health Board Blawarthill Hospital 30 Canniesburn Hospital 30 Gartloch Hospital 30 Gartnavel Hospital 60 Mearnskirk Hospital 30 Stobhill Hospital 60 Tayside Health Board Irvine Memorial Hospital, Pitlochry 12 Murray Royal Hospital, Perth 60 1981 Ayrshire and Arran Health Board Crosshouse Hospital 710 Fife Health Board Glenrothes Hospital 92 Lothian Health Board Edinburgh Royal Infirmary redevelopment—Phase I nil Edinburgh Royal Hospital—Phase I 170 Tayside Health Board Perth Royal Infirmary 85 Royal Liff Hospital, Dundee 60 1982 Grampian Health Board Inverurie Hospital 30 Spynie Hospital, Elgin 30 Highland Health Board Lochaber Hospital 30 Lothian Health Board Astley Ainslie 130 Tayside Health Board Blairgowrie Cottage Hospital 36 1983 Borders Health Board Hay Lodge, Peebles 65 Fife Health Board Whyteman's Brae, Kirkcaldy 260 Forth Valley Health Board Royal Scottish National Hospital, Larbert 120 Grampian Health Board Ugie Hospital, Peterhead 30 Woodend Hospital—Glenburn Wing 24 Woodlands Hospital 120 Greater Glasgow Health Board Glasgow Royal Infirmary—Phase I 214 Stobhill Hospital 90
Number of beds Lothian Health Board Herdmanflat Hospital 72 Tayside Health Board Aberfeldy Cottage Hospital 12 Note: The details provided are based on information held centrally about new hospital buildings brought into use most recently on the sites of existing hospitals. The total bed complement of the accommodation is shown but it should be noted that not all beds were necessarily brought into use in the given years. Many of the beds provided are replacements for outdated facilities elsewhere and are not additions to the overall complement.