Western Isles Hospital
| Western Isles Hospital | |
|---|---|
| NHS Western Isles | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Stornoway, Eileanan Siar, Scotland |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Hospital type | General (Rural) |
| Services | |
| Beds | 212 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.wihb.scot.nhs.uk/ NHS Western Isles |
The Western Isles Hospital (Scottish Gaelic: Ospadal nan Eilean Siar) is a rural general hospital in Stornoway on Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland. It is run by NHS Western Isles, the local health board. The hospital has 212 beds across a range of specialities, including general medicine, geriatrics, paediatrics, general surgery, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology and psychiatry.
Specialist services are provided by Consultants from Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on a rotational basis, and also by locum consultants. The majority of medical staff are junior doctors on rotation from Aberdeen, and the hospital is notable for not having any specialist registrars.
The hospital employs nursing staff that are in the majority locals who trained on the Scottish mainland and have returned to work on the island. A variety of allied health professionals are based at the hospital, including dieticians, pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists and radiographers.
The Western Isles Hospital also features the largest tiled roof in the world. [1]
Within the hospital there is a learning centre and purpose-built facilities for clinical skills training.[2]
History
Costing £32 million, and taking two years to construct, the hospital was opened to patients in September 1992. It was given an official opening on 26 March 1993, by HRH Prince Charles, who was said to have been impressed with the new facilities following a tour. In 2012, the hospital marked the 20th anniversary of its opening.[3]
A modernisation plan for the hospital has included improvement work during 2013 and 2014 to a number of areas.[4]
Footnotes
- ↑ Angus Corbett (1984)
- ↑ "Western Isles Campus". University of Stirling. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ↑ "WIH 20th Anniversary". NHS Western Isles. 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
- ↑ "Update on hospital refurbishment process". Stornoway Gazette. 8 June 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
Coordinates: 58°13′16″N 6°23′0″W / 58.22111°N 6.38333°W