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| '''Borders General ] (BGH)''', operated since 1988<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.melrose.bordernet.co.uk/bgh/|title=Borders General Hospital on the Melrose Bordernet site}}</ref> by ], is on the outskirts of ]. It created over 1000 jobs and has 328 beds. It offers a wide range of treatments, and has an Accident and Emergency department and a Macmillan Cancer Unit. | '''Borders General ] (BGH)''', operated since 1988<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.melrose.bordernet.co.uk/bgh/|title=Borders General Hospital on the Melrose Bordernet site}}</ref> by ], is on the outskirts of ]. It created over 1000 jobs and has 328 beds. It offers a wide range of treatments, and has an Accident and Emergency department and a Macmillan Cancer Unit. | ||
| The hospital was designed and built to replace the ageing and unfit "Peel Hospital" of Caddonfoot near Galashiels; the former hospital serving first as a wartime hospital (WW2) and expanded in line with NHS introduction and population expansion in the Scottish Borders. | The hospital was designed and built to replace the ageing and unfit "Peel Hospital" of Caddonfoot near Galashiels; the former hospital serving first as a wartime hospital (WW2) and expanded in line with NHS introduction and population expansion in the Scottish Borders. | ||
| The Borders general Hospital (locally known as the "BGH") was also home to the Scottish Borders Campus of Napier University nursing college up until their service withdrawal in 2010/11. Current care services include general-medical and general-surgical receiving and assessment wards, a Department of medicine for the elderly (DME) unit, a children's ward (Ward 14 Noah's Ark), ENT suite, audiology, pre/peri and post-natal wards with a labour suite, theatre, Emergency department, dementia assessment unit, gynaecology ward, cafe (operated by WRVS) and large outpatients suite. The hospital serves as the main hospital in the Scottish Borders serving, mainly, the counties of Selkrikshire, Roxburghshire, Peeblesshire and western Berwickshire. Other counties and Berwickshire are served by Berwick infirmary and larger hospitals in the City of Edinburgh. The Hospital is governed by NHS Borders, it's Director of Nursing and executive board whom are sited at the board's HQ in nearby Newstead. Beside the Hospital, within the grounds, is the NHS Borders education and conference centre which comprises lecture theatres, the training and professional development department, the IT suite and a comprehensive library. | |||
| The Borders general Hospital (locally known as the "BGH") was also home to the Scottish Borders Campus of Napier University nursing college up until their service withdrawal in 2010/11. | |||
| The Borders General Hospital is accessible via the A68 road, known colloquially as the Melrose bypass. It is roughly five minutes from the town of Galashiels and two minutes from the small town of Melrose via Chiefswood Road and is served by buses from all Border towns ran by First Bus and Munro Buses. | |||
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Revision as of 00:08, 13 September 2013
Borders General Hospital (BGH), operated since 1988 by NHS Borders which was preceded by Borders Primary Care NHS Trust, is on the outskirts of Melrose, Scotland. It created over 1000 jobs and has 328 beds. It offers a wide range of treatments, and has an Accident and Emergency department and a Macmillan Cancer Unit. The hospital was designed and built to replace the ageing and unfit "Peel Hospital" of Caddonfoot near Galashiels; the former hospital serving first as a wartime hospital (WW2) and expanded in line with NHS introduction and population expansion in the Scottish Borders. The Borders general Hospital (locally known as the "BGH") was also home to the Scottish Borders Campus of Napier University nursing college up until their service withdrawal in 2010/11. Current care services include general-medical and general-surgical receiving and assessment wards, a Department of medicine for the elderly (DME) unit, a children's ward (Ward 14 Noah's Ark), ENT suite, audiology, pre/peri and post-natal wards with a labour suite, theatre, Emergency department, dementia assessment unit, gynaecology ward, cafe (operated by WRVS) and large outpatients suite. The hospital serves as the main hospital in the Scottish Borders serving, mainly, the counties of Selkrikshire, Roxburghshire, Peeblesshire and western Berwickshire. Other counties and Berwickshire are served by Berwick infirmary and larger hospitals in the City of Edinburgh. The Hospital is governed by NHS Borders, it's Director of Nursing and executive board whom are sited at the board's HQ in nearby Newstead. Beside the Hospital, within the grounds, is the NHS Borders education and conference centre which comprises lecture theatres, the training and professional development department, the IT suite and a comprehensive library.
The Borders General Hospital is accessible via the A68 road, known colloquially as the Melrose bypass. It is roughly five minutes from the town of Galashiels and two minutes from the small town of Melrose via Chiefswood Road and is served by buses from all Border towns ran by First Bus and Munro Buses.
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