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RDR wrote:Most of them have closed over the span of may career as well
Few are still in use or the sites are:
Eye Infirmary is now of course the Sandyford, Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinic
Mearnskirk Hospital Site, still has a small long stay unit on that site (how the HB got round selling off most of the land even though a trust deed restricted it to health use only), though its a new unit not in the original buildings.
Darnley Hospital Site has a private care home on it (though it did have HB funded beds at one time).
I think missing off the list is the Ear, Nose and Throat hospital in St Vincent Street, though I can't mind it's closure date. It had some great wall tiling.
moonbeam wrote:Drumchapel Hospital also appears to be on the way out. Most patients are going to level 8 at Gartnaval and the GP out of hours appears to be going to Gartnaval.
Boxer6 wrote:As you say Dazza, many of the patients went out to live in the community where, sadly, many were left to 'sink or swim' on their own, partly through lack of staff numbers to support them. I was in the Isle of Man at the time, but kept in touch with folk I trained with and, as it happens, my OH used to work in Woodilee right through transition time.
Anecdotally, from comments made at the time and a few years thereafter, many of the 'transplanted' patients from the CoE wards and hospitals simply died where they were put, as they didn't seem able to cope with a wildly different regime, buildings and staff from what they'd known and changed with slowly over decades - some as long as 60 years! Other were simply lost to the system, or family members grudgingly took them in - not too many of that last by the way!
That covers a fair number of them; as for the rest, I couldn't really hazard a guess.
Boxer6 wrote:As you say Dazza, many of the patients went out to live in the community where, sadly, many were left to 'sink or swim' on their own, partly through lack of staff numbers to support them. I was in the Isle of Man at the time, but kept in touch with folk I trained with and, as it happens, my OH used to work in Woodilee right through transition time.
Anecdotally, from comments made at the time and a few years thereafter, many of the 'transplanted' patients from the CoE wards and hospitals simply died where they were put, as they didn't seem able to cope with a wildly different regime, buildings and staff from what they'd known and changed with slowly over decades - some as long as 60 years! Other were simply lost to the system, or family members grudgingly took them in - not too many of that last by the way!
Glasgow University's plans to transform a former hospital site into a learning hub will see an estimated £1 billion of investment over the next decade.
The university has taken over the 14-acre site of the old Western Infirmary to extend its Gilmorehill campus in what is being hailed as one of the largest education developments in Scotland.
The masterplan includes the creation of a research and innovation hub and new buildings for social sciences, health and engineering.
The proposals would see new public routes and a central square linking to Byres Road, and commercial opportunities in the form of restaurants, bars and a hotel.
An estimated 2,500 jobs will be created during the construction period and the planned £1 billion spending is equivalent to twice the budget for Glasgow's Commonwealth Games.
Glasgow University principal and vice-chancellor Professor Anton Muscatelli said: "We hope to use the new site as a catalyst to attract and grow the very best academics, to attract the very best students and to ensure that Glasgow continues to be one of the top universities in the world."
The university moved from High Street to the Gilmorehill site in 1870 as part of plans to have a learning hub and hospital side by side, so the hospital could be used for clinical teaching and research.
A clause was signed stating that if the hospital, which opened in 1874, ever ceased to be a hospital then the university could buy back the site.
Robert Calderwood, chief executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said: "The Western Infirmary played a hugely important role in advancing medicine not just in Scotland, but globally.
"As we look to advance medical knowledge through cutting-edge facilities at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, it's fitting that the Western land is now being returned to the university almost 140 years later."
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce chief executive Stuart Patrick said: "What is especially impressive is the ambition the university has to create what is effectively a new district in the west end, accessible to the public whilst at the same time providing a new home for multi-disciplinary research and a model of future centres for student learning."
BTJustice wrote:With all the possible changes that are coming it should provide interesting viewing for the next few years.
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