Hairmyres Hospital

Hairmyres Hospital
NHS Lanarkshire
Hairmyres Hospital - East Kilbride
Geography
Location	East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	District General
Affiliated university	University of Glasgow Medical School
Services
Emergency department	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	492 Inpatient, 20 Day Case
History
Founded	1919
Links
Website	http://www.nhslanarkshire.co.uk/Hospitals/Hairmyres/Pages/default.aspx
Lists	Hospitals in Scotland

Hairmyres Hospital is a district general hospital in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The hospital serves one of the largest elderly populations in Scotland.

Hairmyres Hospital, simply known as "Hairmyres" by local residents, is a private finance initiative (PFI) hospital located in East Kilbride, Scotland. The new hospital buildings were built by the Kier Group, costing £67.5 million and having an accompanying contract for 30 years. Building work began in May 1988 and completed by February 2001. Services were moved into the new building in March 2001 and the hospital officially opened by Henry McLeish in September 2001.

Hairmyres Hospital serves patients in the South Lanarkshire catchment area. It is one of three acute hospitals in NHS Lanarkshire. The hospital has 492 inpatient beds and 20 day beds, employing 2500 members of staff. Services include 24-hour Accident and Emergency, General Medicine, Oncology, Psychiatry, Care of the Elderly, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, and Vascular Surgery.

The wards, bed capacity and their specialities are:

NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for the health of more than 637,000 people living within the North and South Lanarkshire local authority areas. There are three district general hospitals in the Health Board area - Hairmyres, Monklands in Airdrie and Wishaw General Hospital. Each hospital has an accident and emergency department and provides a range of specialist medical and surgical services. Maternity, gynaecology and paediatric services are based at Wishaw General Hospital, with Ophthalmology and vascular surgery centralised at Hairmyres.