Daisy Hill Hospital

Daisy Hill Hospital (Irish: Otharlann Chnoc na Nóiníní) is a local teaching hospital located in Newry, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.^[1]

The hospital currently houses a neonatal unit, A&E department, out-patients department and a surgery suite. Attached to the hospital is on-site accommodation for nursing staff and an ambulance station.

It is part of the Southern Health and Social Care Trust, which became operational on 1 April 2007 following the amalgamation of Craigavon Area Hospital Group, Craigavon and Banbridge Community, Newry and Mourne and Armagh and Dungannon Health and Social Services Trusts.^[2] It is situated on the Hospital Road and backs onto the A25 Camlough Road, on the site of the former Newry Workhouse.^[3]

In the early 1990s Daisy Hill became the only hospital in Newry & Mourne as services were gradually withdrawn from St. John of God Hospital, also in Newry, which then became St. John's House, a dedicated hospice for children and adults suffering from terminal illnesses.

New hospital

A £130m business case for the building of a new hospital on the existing Daisy Hill site has been submitted by the Trust. An allocation for modernisation and development of services was included in the £2.9 billion investment programme announced for health and social services over the next ten years in the Investment Strategy for Northern Ireland in December 2005.^[4] In 2015, while discussion on provision of a new hospital continues, no new building has been commenced.

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Coordinates: 54°10′48″N 6°21′04″W / 54.180°N 6.351°W / 54.180; -6.351