Stracathro Hospital
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{{Infobox hospital
| Name = Stracathro Hospital
| Org/Group = NHS Tayside
| Image = Stracathro Hospital and its stunning cafeteria with enthusiastic and friendly staff.jpg
| Caption = Stracathro Hospital
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| Location = near Brechin
| Region = Angus
| Country = Scotland
| HealthCare = NHS Scotland
| Type = District Hospital
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| Emergency = No
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| Website = {{URL|http://www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk/patients/hospital/Stracathro/Stracathro.shtml}}
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| map_type =Scotland Angus
| map_caption=Shown in Angus
| coordinates={{coord|56.7764|N|2.6156|W|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
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Stracathro Hospital is a community hospital in Angus, Scotland. Established as a wartime Emergency Hospital Service facility during the Second World War, it was afterward developed as a District General Hospital. Since 2005 it has been the site of the Scottish Regional Treatment Centre.
History
The hospital was designed as one of seven Emergency Hospital Service facilities for military casualties. It was established in the grounds of Stracathro House in 1939, early in the Second World War.{{cite web| url=http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst11163.html| title=Stracathro Hospital| publisher=Gazetteer for Scotland| accessdate=2009-08-29}}{{cite web |title=THB 38 Stracathro Hospital |url=http://arccat.dundee.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%27thb%2038%27%29 |website=Archive Services Online Catalogue |publisher=University of Dundee |accessdate=22 August 2018}} The single-storey wards could accommodate up to 1,000 patients, and the mansion house provided accommodation for staff.
The first patients were victims of an air raid on Montrose in 1940. These were followed by civilian casualties from English cities, including London, Birmingham and Coventry, and later by soldiers from all theatres of the war. Long trains would deliver the wounded to Brechin station.{{cite web| url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/medical/exhibitions/hospitalsatwar2.htm| title=Hospitals at War: Medical Care in Tayside 1939-45| publisher=University of Dundee| access-date=17 October 2010}}
The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and later developed as a rural general hospital, serving a local population of about 110,000.
In 1998, almost overnight, emergency general surgery was moved to Ninewells Hospital.{{cite web| url=http://old.rcpe.ac.uk/publications/rarm/lyall.pdf| title=Stracathro Hospital: a new future for a rural hospital| author=Michael H Lyall| publisher=Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh| date=September 2005| access-date=10 July 2014}} This threatened the future of the hospital, and led to speculation that it might close. The speculation increased when the Tayside Acute Services Review, carried out in 2001, recommended a completely new hospital in Angus. Closure of the coronary care unit later that year limited thrombolysis service in the community to what paramedics could provide.{{cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/sp/?id=2001-11-01.3611.5|title=Paramedics|publisher=Scottish Parliament |date= 1 November 2001|access-date=19 January 2019}}
In 2005, the Scottish Regional Treatment Centre was developed at Stracathro. This was a joint venture between the NHS and the private sector; it included £15 million funding from the Scottish Executive. The SRTC caters for NHS patients from Grampian, Tayside and Fife Health Boards. Amicus Health, a subsidiary of General Healthcare Group, the UK's largest private hospital group, was awarded a contract to deliver 8,000 episodes of elective surgery in orthopaedics, urology, general surgery, and gastroenterology at Stracathro Hospital from 2006.{{cite web|title=Netcare Briefing|url=http://www.keepournhspublic.com/pdf/Netcarebriefing.pdf|publisher=Keep Our NHS Public|accessdate=17 October 2014|year=2006|url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140825154149/http://www.keepournhspublic.com/pdf/Netcarebriefing.pdf|archivedate=25 August 2014|df=dmy-all}}
The Susan Carnegie Centre, which houses three inpatient mental health units and a mental health day unit, opened in December 2011.{{cite web|url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-mearns/253474/nhs-tayside-rejects-rumours-of-plans-to-close-20m-mulberry-unit-at-stracathro-hospital/|title=NHS Tayside rejects rumours of plans to close £20m Mulberry Unit at Stracathro Hospital|date=6 February 2016|publisher=The Courier|access-date=19 January 2019}}
Transportation
The hospital is located beside the A90 and is on multiple bus routes.{{Cite web|title=Find a bus timetable|url=https://www.angus.gov.uk/roads_parking_and_travel/public_transport/find_a_bus_timetable|access-date=2021-04-28|website=Angus Council|language=en}}
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Category:NHS Scotland hospitals
Category:Hospitals established in 1939