Wishaw General Hospital

Wishaw General Hospital
NHS Lanarkshire
Wishaw General Hospital
Geography
Location	Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	District General
Services
Emergency department	Yes: Accident and Emergency
Beds	633
History
Founded	2001
Links
Website	Wishaw General Hospital
Lists	Hospitals in Scotland

Wishaw General Hospital (more commonly known as Wishaw Hospital) is a district general hospital in the Craigneuk area of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire.

Wishaw General Hospital opened on 29 May 2001. It is a 633-bedded hospital, with the second-largest maternity unit in Scotland, delivering 5500 babies each year. The hospital has a paediatric neonatal unit, an MRI scanner, elderly care and psychiatric day hospitals, and an emergency care unit containing an integrated 24-hour accident and emergency unit with 36-bed ward.

The hospital is just 11 miles from Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, that lies to the north-west of Wishaw.

The hospital was designed by Percy Thomas Partnership and built by Sir Robert McAlpine as part of a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project led by Summit Healthcare. Construction started on site in November 1998 and was completed in February 2001.

NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for the health of more than 553,000 people living within the North and South Lanarkshire local authority areas.

The three district general hospitals in the area - Wishaw General, Monklands Hospital in Airdrie and Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride - each have an accident and emergency department and provide a range of specialist medical and surgical services. Maternity, gynaecology and paediatric services are based at Wishaw General Hospital.