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The hospital moved to High Dock in 1778 before becoming the Dumfries and Galloway Infirmary in 1785 and the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary in 1807. [2] Dr William Scott administered sulphuric ether , in the first use of anesthetics in the United Kingdom, at the High Dock facility in 1846. [ 3 ]
Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Coordinates 55°19′53″N 3°25′50″W / 55.3314254°N 3.4304219°W / 55.3314254; -3.4304219 ( Moffat
The hospital was designed to replace aging accommodation at a number of sites: the Cree West ward at the Crichton Royal Hospital; the hospice block at the Crichton; Lahraig at the Nithbank site; and the Wellgreen cottages at Glencaple Road. [1] It was one of the first projects to be procured through Frameworks Scotland. [2]
The board was established following the dissolution of several NHS trusts which provided healthcare services in the Dumfries and Galloway area: Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity Hospitals NHS Trust, Dumfries and Galloway Community Health NHS Trust and Dumfries and Galloway Primary Care NHS Trust, all of which were established in the 1990s and dissolved between 1999 and 2003.
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, one of the largest acute hospital campuses in Europe. [1] [2]The following is a list of acute, general district, and mental health hospitals currently open and operational in Scotland, organised into each of the 14 regional health boards of NHS Scotland.
Kirkcudbright Hospital is a health facility in Barrhill Road, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Dumfries and Galloway . History
It was designed by John Henry Townsend Wodd in the Jacobean style and opened as the Thomas Hope Hospital for the Poor in 1897. [2] The design included an octagonal mortuary. [ 2 ] The hospital joined the National Health Service as the Thomas Hope Hospital in 1948.
The facility has its origins in an infectious diseases hospital which opened in 1904. [1] It joined the National Health Service in 1948. [2] An extension was created by demolishing an adjacent smallpox hospital in the 1970s. [1] The trust decided to limit the number of bed spaces to 14 due to staff shortages in 2018. [3]