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In January 2010, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde closed the Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital at Yorkhill, with maternity services relocating to the Southern General Hospital. [3] Construction started in early 2011. [4] Originally to be called Royal Hospital for Sick Children, [5] it was named Royal Hospital for Children.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is an NHS board in West Central Scotland, created from the amalgamation of NHS Greater Glasgow and part of NHS Argyll and Clyde on 1 April 2006. [ 2 ] It is the largest health board in both Scotland, and the UK, which consists of the council areas of Glasgow City , East Dunbartonshire , East Renfrewshire ...
[1] When opened, the hospital had 58 beds. [1] It was funded by charitable donations. [2] The hospital admitted its first patient, a 5-year-old boy with curvature of the spine, on 8 January 1883. [1] A further 12 beds were added when Thomas Carlyle converted a house next door into an annexe in 1887. [1]
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ISBN 1-84158-278-6. Jenkinson, Jacqueline (1994). The Royal: The History of Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1794-1994 Bicentenary Committee on behalf of Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust ISBN 978-0852614334; Pittock, Murray G. H. (2003). A New History of Scotland. Sutton. ISBN 0-7509-2786-0. Williams, David (1999). The Glasgow Guide. Birlinn. ISBN 0 ...
Diabetes UK was founded in 1934 as The Diabetic Association, by the author H. G. Wells and Robert Daniel Lawrence. [2] Diabetes UK's first research grant was made in 1936. [3] The organisation has since had two name changes—in 1954 to The British Diabetic Association and again in June 2000 to Diabetes UK. [2] [4] [5]
Gestational diabetes is a condition in which a woman without diabetes develops high blood sugar levels during pregnancy. [2] Gestational diabetes generally results in few symptoms; [2] however, obesity increases the rate of pre-eclampsia, cesarean sections, and embryo macrosomia, as well as gestational diabetes. [2]
Globally, an estimated 537 million adults are living with diabetes, according to 2019 data from the International Diabetes Federation. [1] Diabetes was the 9th-leading cause of mortality globally in 2020, attributing to over 2 million deaths annually due to diabetes directly, and to kidney disease due to diabetes. [2]