Rutherglen Maternity Hospital was a women and children's hospital in Stonelaw Road,

Rutherglen Rutherglen (; , ) is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, immediately south-east of the city of Glasgow, from its centre and directly south of the River Clyde. Having previously existed as a separate Lanarkshire burgh, in 1975 Rutherglen lo ...

South Lanarkshire South Lanarkshire (; ) is one of 32 unitary authorities of Scotland. It borders the south-east of the Glasgow City council area and contains some of Greater Glasgow's suburban towns, as well as many rural towns and villages. It also shares bor ...

, Scotland.

History

Until the 1970s, maternity services in Rutherglen were provided at the

Duke Street Hospital The Duke Street Hospital was a health facility on Duke Street in Glasgow, Scotland. History Duke Street was originally a Poor Law hospital, commissioned by the Glasgow Parish Council. The facility, which was designed by Alfred Hessell Tiltman ...

. The foundation stone for the new hospital was laid by a

gynaecologist Gynaecology or gynecology (see American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the female reproductive system. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, which focuses on pre ...

, Sir Hector McLennan, in June 1973. The new building was designed by Frank Campbell. The local member of parliament, Gregor Mackenzie, welcomed the first babies born there in 1978 and it was officially opened by Princess Alexandra on 18 May 1979. After 56,000 babies had been born there, it closed on 1 August 1998 in order to consolidate maternity services at fewer locations, on the same site as emergency treatment – despite local opposition to the closure in the preceding years.Hospital may be sacrificed , Rutherglen Maternity could close early to save debt-ridden Victoria Infirmary
The Herald, 18 June 1997 GPs plan takeover of hospital which is facing early closure
The Herald, 21 October 1997
Glasgow Punter, 15 December 2017 The site is now occupied by a complex of retirement apartments and an extension of the local health centre, the older part of which was built at the same time as the hospital, replacing Rutherglen's older clinic on King Street.Dr Anne Forrest says farewell to Rutherglen Health Centre after 32 years
Daily Record, 3 April 2014

References

Hospitals in South Lanarkshire 1978 establishments in Scotland Hospitals established in 1978 Hospital buildings completed in 1978 1998 disestablishments in Scotland Defunct hospitals in Scotland Maternity hospitals in the United Kingdom Hospitals disestablished in 1998 Buildings and structures in Rutherglen {{UK-hospital-stub