Golden Jubilee National Hospital

Golden Jubilee National Hospital
NHS Scotland Special NHS board
Golden Jubilee National Hospital and Beardmore Hotel
Geography
Location	Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Coordinates	55°54′25″N 4°25′33″W / 55.90694°N 4.42583°W / 55.90694; -4.42583Coordinates: 55°54′25″N 4°25′33″W / 55.90694°N 4.42583°W / 55.90694; -4.42583
Organisation
Care system	NHS Scotland
Hospital type	Specialist
Affiliated university	University of Glasgow Medical School Glasgow Caledonian University
Services
Beds	163
Speciality	NHS National Waiting Times Centre West of Scotland Heart and Lung Centre
History
Founded	1994
Links
Website	http://www.nhsgoldenjubilee.co.uk/
Lists	Hospitals in Scotland

The Golden Jubilee National Hospital is a hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, Scotland.

Specialities

The Golden Jubilee National Hospital occupies the north bank of the River Clyde at Dalmuir, but receives referrals from across the country. The Clydebank hospital is Scotland's flagship hospital for reducing patient waiting times. The NHS National Waiting Times Centre is an NHS Special Board made up of two distinct parts - the Golden Jubilee National Hospital and the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel.

The hospital is home to the West of Scotland Heart and Lung Centre,^[1] which opened in 2007.^[2] It provides regional and national services; including the West of Scotland Optimal Reperfusion Service, providing primary angioplasty. The centre has four cath labs including a dedicated electrophysiology lab. The hospital is one of the leading hospitals for orthopaedics in UK. It is well renowned over the world for use of computer navigation surgery in joint replacements. It carries out the most thoracic surgeries in the United Kingdom and Ireland^[3]

Pre-registration nursing students from Glasgow Caledonian University have placements at the hospital.^[4]

History

Site

The site was once part of the William Beardmore and Company Naval Construction Works. Built by William Beardmore, between 1901 and 1906, the yard covered nearly 100 acres (0.40 km²), making it was one of the largest shipyards in the UK. It produced a large range of products, including ships of all descriptions, aircraft, airships, tanks, guns, shells and mines. After World War I, it constructed locomotives and steel houses. The yard became uneconomic in the 1920s and closed its gates for the last time in 1930. Later used as ROF Dalmuir, many of the buildings survived into the 1980s, with some shipbreaking on the site.^[5]

Hospital

The Golden Jubilee National Hospital was built in 1994, as a private hospital by Health Care International. The initial cost was £180 million.^[6] The controversial venture proved unsuccessful in private hands and the hospital was purchased for the National Health Service, at a cost of £37.5 million in 2002.^[6] Initially known as the National Waiting Times Centre, it was soon renamed the Golden Jubilee National Hospital.^[7] Orthopaedics department has also pioneered a CALEDONIAN technique for post op pain relief, quick mobilisation and early discharge of patients. It is one of the biggest centres in the world in use of computer assisted orthopaedic surgery and has done extensive research in this field. A new two-theatre Orthopaedic suite was added in 2003, amongst the most advanced in Europe. The hospital also houses the headquarters and western call-centre for NHS24, the telephone helpline.

Hotel

The on-site Beardmore Hotel is a 168-room four-star hotel and conference centre. It was built to accommodate the relatives of the wealthy private patients. Now also owned by the National Health Service, it hosts medical conferences.

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