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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 during World War 2 and was 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 Planned Surgical Admissions Unit opened in March 2011, affording patients a more suitable environment to go for routine surgical procedures The renal dialysis unit major benefited from a major upgrade in June 2011 which included an increase in the number of dialysis machines from 6 to 12. In January 2013 the Margaret Kerr Unit opened, providing dedicated palliative care facilities. In March 2013 refurbishment to the stroke unit was completed.

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, its 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 run by First Bus and Perryman Buses.

References

1. "Borders General Hospital on the Melrose Bordernet site".
2. "Planned Surgical Admission Unit at BGH proves a success". Peeblesshire News. 24 July 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
3. "Borders renal dialysis unit ready to open". BBC News. 21 June 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
4. "Margaret Kerr unit in Melrose admits first patients". BBC News. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
5. "Full report: Refurbished stroke unit reopens in Borders". STV News. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2014.

External links

• Borders General Hospital page on NHS Borders website

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