Gartnavel General Hospital
- Gartnavel General Hospital
Gartnavel General Hospital is a general hospital in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland. The hospital was opened in December 1972 beside the existing Gartnavel Royal Hospital, [cite web | url=http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s765_3&newsid=939&back=s8_1 | title=Gartnavel Gala To Mark 30 Great Years | date=October 14, 2003 | publisher=NHS Greater Glasgow | accessdate=2006-11-29] to house units from the Western Infirmary that were relocating while the hospital buildings were being demolished and replaced. [cite book | title=The Western Infirmary 1874 - 1974 | author=Loudon MacQueen | coauthors=Archibald B. Kerr | year=1974 | publisher=John Horn Limited | id=ISBN 0-9505-5520-7]
Originally a single eight story block containing 576 beds standing on a three story podium [cite web | url=http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/hb81.html | title=Records of Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland | author=Alistair Tough | date=23 July 1998 | publisher=Greater Glasgow NHS Board Archive | accessdate=2006-11-29] , further buildings have since been added, with the most recent being a new cancer care centre [cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3872935.stm | title=Work begins on £87m cancer centre | date=7 July 2004 | publisher=BBC News | accessdate=2006-11-29] to replace the current Beatson Oncology Centre facilities that are currently spread between Gartnavel, the Western Infirmary and the Royal Infirmary [cite web | url=http://www.beatson.scot.nhs.uk/about_us/index.htm | title=About Us | publisher=Beatson Oncology Centre | accessdate=2006-11-29] .
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* [http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s2_2&loc_id=11 Gartnavel General Hospital at NHS Greater of Glasgow and Clyde website]
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