The Southern General Hospital (SGH) was a large teaching hospital with an acute operational bed complement of approximately 900 beds. The hospital was located in Linthouse in the south west of Glasgow, Scotland. All facilities and services have been succeeded by the

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) is a 1,677-bed acute hospital located in Govan, in the south-west of Glasgow, Scotland. The hospital is built on the site of the former Southern General Hospital and opened at the end of April 2015 ...

which was constructed on the site of the old hospital.

History

The hospital had its origins in the Govan Combination Poorhouse located in old cavalry barracks at Eglinton Street in 1852. A new 240-bed hospital and 180-patient

lunatic asylum The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital. Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replace ...

were designed by James Thomson and completed in 1872. A major extension involving 700 more beds was completed in 1905. The hospital was formally renamed the Southern General Hospital in 1923 and it joined the

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ...

in 1948. Upgrading of the hospital's facilities began during the 1950s and culminated in the opening of a new maternity unit in 1970 and the completion of the Institute of Neurological Sciences in 1972, where the Glasgow Coma Scale was devised by Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett in 1974. The Langlands Building, which provides care for the elderly, was procured under a

Private Finance Initiative The private finance initiative (PFI) was a United Kingdom government procurement policy aimed at creating "public–private partnerships" (PPPs) where private firms are contracted to complete and manage public projects. Initially launched in 1992 ...

contract in 1999, was built by

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and opened in 2001. The laboratory, established to process results from hospitals all around Scotland, cost £90 million and opened in 2012. All services were transferred to the

in 2015.

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