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50-563: Stobhill Hospital is located in Springburn in the north of Glasgow , Scotland. It serves the population of North Glasgow and part of East Dunbartonshire . It is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde . Stobhill was originally a Poor Law hospital, commissioned by the Glasgow Parish Council . The design competition, which was judged by John James Burnet , was won by Glasgow architects, Thomson & Sandilands. The foundation stone

100-716: A 25% global market share. There were four main railway manufacturing sites that located in Springburn; the North British Railway 's (NBR) Cowlairs Works in 1841, the Caledonian Railway 's St Rollox Works in 1856, Neilson & Company 's Hyde Park Works in 1861 and Sharp, Stewart & Company 's Atlas Works in 1888. The latter two eventually amalgamated to become part of the North British Locomotive Company (NBL) in 1903. Also located in Springburn

150-559: A 562-seat stand. Springburn continued to see expansion during the 20th century, with housing schemes such as Balornock being developed in the Interwar period , while those in Balgrayhill, Barmulloch (which also included one high-rise development at Birnie Court, part of the Red Road flats) and Sighthill being constructed post-WWII. The old urban centre of Springburn was redeveloped from

200-477: A general and geriatric medicine hospital. The Greater Glasgow's Acute Services Review, published by NHS Greater Glasgow in 2002, recommended replacing the existing Stobhill Hospital building and its 440-bed general medical and surgical inpatient facilities with an outpatient Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Hospital. Controversy over this decision resulted in Jean Turner 's election as an Independent Member of

250-631: A modern Pathology Department in 1968. A new operating theatre and postgraduate medical teaching complex opened in 1970. With the reorganisation of the National Health Service in 1974, Stobhill became the responsibility of the Northern District of the Greater Glasgow Health Board. A 52-bed Marie Curie Cancer Care hospice was opened adjacent to the hospital in 1976. The maternity unit was closed in 1992, leaving Stobhill as

300-421: A phone line, call-back service, web chat, an online community, and information online and in print. Marie Curie also offers a free bereavement support service which matches people experiencing grief with specially trained volunteers for regular support. Both services are funded by charitable donations. The charity runs Companion volunteer services at home, in hospitals and over the phone for people living with

350-467: A sprawling, 47-acre (19-hectare) campus on the edge of Springburn Park . The Hamiltonhill Branch of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway , which ran past the northern boundary of the hospital grounds, facilitated the transport of coal and supplies to the hospital. The cost of the building was £250,000. It featured a large clocktower at the centre of the site, which has become a dominant landmark in

400-495: A terminal illness to access the benefits they need. Previously, there was a rule in place meaning people diagnosed with a terminal illness could only get quick and easy access to financial support if a doctor or nurse said they had less than six months to live. In 2022, Marie Curie's campaign to Make End of Life Care Fair resulted in a change being made to the UK Government's Health and Care Bill . The change will mean that, in

450-539: A terminal illness which provide companionship and respite towards the end of life. Marie Curie campaigns on issues which affect people living with a terminal illness and those close to them. In 2021, their Scrap Six Months campaign with the Motor Neurone Disease Association resulted in a change in the law in Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales. This made it easier for people diagnosed with

500-403: Is Marie Curie's flagship fundraising campaign. Members of the public fundraise and donate, and wear a daffodil in support of the charity and better end of life care for all. On 23 March 2021, Marie Curie led the first National Day of Reflection in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic to commemorate the people who had died and support the millions of people who'd been bereaved. This returned for

550-548: Is an inner-city district in the north of the Scottish city of Glasgow , made up of generally working-class households. Springburn developed from a rural hamlet at the beginning of the 19th century. Its industrial expansion began with the establishment of a chemical works by Charles Tennant on the newly opened Monkland Canal at nearby St. Rollox in 1799, which later became part of the United Alkali Company . Later in

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600-732: Is the Eastfield Running Shed , originally built by the NBR near the Cowlairs Works in 1904. St Rollox became the largest works, and is the only one still in existence, after the collapse of the NBL in 1962 and the closure of Cowlairs in 1968. In 2007 Railcare Limited, who also owned the Wolverton Works in Milton Keynes , took over operations at St Rollox, from Alstom , who had originally acquired

650-648: The Germiston Works on Petershill Road. The site is now closed. The highest point in the district and in the City of Glasgow is Springburn Park on Balgrayhill, 364 feet (111 metres) above sea level. The park contains the Springburn Winter Gardens , which has lain derelict since 1983. Stobhill Hospital was later built adjacent to the park in 1904. The Barnhill Poorhouse at Springburn opened in 1850. Paupers who could not support themselves were sent here by

700-541: The Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the city centre, as inpatient and A&E services were eventually phased out by the end of 2011, though a Minor injuries unit has been retained. In October 2018, the Sunday Post and local MP Paul Sweeney exposed a major scrap metal theft at disused buildings in the grounds of the hospital, later securing the commitment of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to restore and illuminate

750-670: The North Clyde and Cumbernauld lines of the Glasgow suburban rail network. The area is also served by numerous bus routes including the First Bus 88 and 90, and M3 . People from Springburn include Scottish International footballer James McFadden , singer (tenor) Sydney MacEwan , comedian, author and talk show host Craig Ferguson , broadcasters and writers Tom Weir MBE and his sister Molly , politicians Paul Sweeney , John McAllion and Frank McAveety . Springburn's former MP, Michael Martin ,

800-558: The "Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation" analysis by the Scottish Government identified Springburn's Keppochhill as the third-most deprived area in Scotland behind Ferguslie Park and neighbouring Possilpark . According to a 2013 report, 51% of children in Springburn were living in poverty, the highest rate of child poverty in Scotland. Springburn is served by Springburn railway station and Barnhill railway station in nearby Petershill, offering regular commuter services on

850-705: The 19th century, the construction of railway lines through the area led to the establishment of railway works and the village became a parish in its own right. The Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway first opened in 1831 to supply the St Rollox Chemical Works and the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway was opened in 1842. Later, the City Union Line was extended to Springburn in 1871, and the Hamiltonhill Branch Line opened in 1894. Initially located outside

900-471: The Glasgow boundary, the core area was eventually absorbed by the city in 1872 and other parts in 1891. In the early 21st century, it forms part of the Springburn/Robroyston ward under Glasgow City Council . The area's economic development has a strong historical link to heavy industry, particularly railways, with the manufacturing of locomotives . In the past, Springburn's locomotive industry had

950-614: The Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre, Cardiff University. It hosts an annual research conference with professionals from across research, policy and health and social care to share the latest evidence and innovation in palliative and end of life care. The charity also encourages research across its hospices and nursing service. To help achieve this, three posts are held through its Research Facilitator Programme at Marie Curie Hospices in Belfast, Edinburgh and

1000-578: The NHS. Marie Curie Hospices provide specialist care and support for people living with a terminal illness and those close to them through inpatient, outpatient, and virtual services. There are Marie Curie Hospices in Belfast, Bradford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London (Hampstead), Liverpool, Newcastle, Penarth (near Cardiff), and the Marie Curie Hospice, West Midlands in Solihull. Marie Curie hospices are free at

1050-626: The New Stobhill Hospital has 60 inpatient beds in three wards: There is also an in-hours Minor injuries unit (09.00-21.00) and out-of-hours GP service. Marie Curie Cancer Care has a hospice at Stobhill. The charity built a new hospice which was opened in January 2010. The 30-room hospice replaces the charity's old building in nearby Belmont Road which cared for more than 1,200 patients and their families each year. Springburn Springburn ( Scottish Gaelic : Allt an Fhuairainn )

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1100-568: The Parish and were obliged to work at jobs such as bundling firewood, picking oakum (separating tarred rope fibres) and breaking rocks. In 1905 the Glasgow Poorhouse in Townhead closed and its inmates went to Barnhill, making it the largest poorhouse in Scotland. In 1945 it was renamed Foresthall Home and Hospital and was thereafter used as a geriatric hospital and residential home. It was demolished in

1150-619: The Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden over this single issue in 2003. Despite this, a new hospital, the first Ambulatory Care hospital in Scotland, specialising in areas such as day surgery , was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in November 2006. The new hospital building, which was designed by Reiach and Hall and built by Balfour Beatty at a cost of £100 million, opened in June 2009. The new hospital building

1200-489: The UK every year. This includes managing their pain, and providing practical care and giving emotional support. Marie Curie's nursing service also provide practical and emotional support for families and carers. Together with statutory government NHS funding, voluntary contributions are essential for Marie Curie to be able to provide nursing services. In the financial year 2021/22, they were funded 46% by charitable donations and 54% by

1250-619: The West Midlands. Marie Curie adopted the daffodil emblem in 1986 as a positive, resilient, life-affirming symbol, with a bright and joyful yellow colour. Marie Curie's biggest fundraising campaign is called The Great Daffodil Appeal and takes place throughout March each year. The charity raises money in a variety of ways, including through charity shops , corporate partnerships, philanthropy, mass participation events, social events, direct giving campaigns, digital and TV campaigns, gifts in wills and bucket collections. The Great Daffodil Appeal

1300-459: The area for decades. In the 2001 UK Census, nearly half of the residents in Springburn said they did not have any formal qualifications, the fourth-highest figure in the UK, and almost two-thirds said they did not own a car, second only to Shettleston ; also in Glasgow. That same year, it was reported that 40% of Springburn's residents were living in poverty, the area's unemployment rate was 140% higher than Scotland's average, deaths from lung cancer

1350-689: The area. More recently the area of Keppochhill Road, which links Springburn with Possilpark , has been regenerated through the work of the West of Scotland Housing Association Ltd, many of the Victorian sandstone tenement flats in Gourlay Street, Carlisle Street and Keppochhill Road have been renovated and work continues to maintain and improve housing in the area. New build developments in recent years has seen Glasgow Housing Association high-rise flats demolished or refurbished and new modern low rise houses built in

1400-453: The area. West of Scotland housing Association now has a head office based at 252 Keppochhill Road however the interest of the charitable organisation extends into Ayrshire and Lanarkshire. The most notable surviving architectural feature in this area, the former Springburn Public Halls , was opened in 1902 and designed by William B. Whitie, who also designed Springburn's Public Carnegie library , which latterly formed Springburn Museum until it

1450-572: The charity awards research project grants in open competition through the Marie Curie Research Grants Scheme. All applications are subject to a process of external peer review before a final decision is made by an independent funding committee. Marie Curie supports and funds the work of two long term Palliative Care Research Facilities across the UK − the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit, UCL and

1500-579: The clock tower at the site. The New Stobhill Hospital provides general outpatient treatment and diagnostic services such as: physiotherapy , podiatry , occupational therapy , drug rehabilitation , dietetics , dermatology , speech and language therapy , renal dialysis , heart and lung investigations, cardiac rehabilitation, elderly day care , diabetic care, dentistry , a chronic pain service, x-rays , CT scans , MRI scans , nuclear medicine , ophthalmology , orthotics , audiology , endoscopy , colposcopy and haematology . A 2011 extension to

1550-531: The control of the Glasgow Corporation and changed from being a Poor Law Hospital to become a Municipal Hospital due to the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 . In 1931 a new maternity unit opened. In 1935, on the death of Sir Hugh Reid of the North British Locomotive Company in Springburn, he bequeathed the family's mansion at Balgrayhill, Belmont House, to the hospital in memory of his wife, and it

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1600-475: The early 1970s to the early 1980s. Selected as one of Glasgow's "Comprehensive Development Areas", Springburn saw the demolition of 85% of buildings in the district and the construction of a sequence of housing estates which transformed the area completely. A major dual carriageway, the A803 Springburn Expressway (originally designed to be the northern link to the aborted Glasgow Inner Ring Road )

1650-408: The existing day surgery to include more complex operations and an evening theatre list, and two 24-bed rehabilitation wards. Half of the beds are provided in single rooms and half in multi-bed wards to enable a choice of accommodation for the expected age and condition of patients. This reorganisation resulted in the nearest Accident and Emergency and general inpatient facilities being relocated to

1700-609: The five major central hospitals of the new Western Regional Hospital Board. Extensions followed, including a geriatric unit, which opened in 1953, the first hospital in Scotland to be fitted with a piped oxygen system in 1957, a pharmacy in 1961, a premature baby ward in 1962, the Edward Unit for Mothers and Babies in 1963, a staff library in 1964, the Clinical Teaching Centre and the Group Training School in 1967 and

1750-446: The future, end of life care must be provided by law in every part of England where local people need it. Marie Curie is the UK's leading charitable funder of palliative and end of life care research. It funds its own researchers, and works in partnership with other organisations. Marie Curie research investments aim to improve the care and support that people affected by any terminal illness and their families receive. Every year,

1800-463: The hospital grounds. A staff of 240 Territorial Force nurses as well as volunteers from the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association cared for over 1,000 patients at a time, suffering from battlefield wounds to venereal disease , until the return of the hospital to civilian use in early 1920. In 1928 a new radiology department was opened and Stobhill became a general hospital in 1929. In 1930 Stobhill came under

1850-581: The hospital permission to use her name. In 1944, most of the hospital was destroyed in an air raid during the Second World War . Four years later, Bernard Robinson OBE and a committee set about re-establishing the hospital and decided to separate it from the newly formed NHS. This was the beginning of the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation − a charity which began by dedicating itself to caring for people with cancer, and today has evolved into

1900-534: The late 1980s and a private housing development now stands on the site. Local football team Cowlairs were a founder member of the Scottish Football League in 1890 but were bankrupt by 1896. Another local team, Northern also played in the SFL for a single season in the 1890s. Petershill was founded in 1897 and continues to play today at New Petershill Park , a modern stadium with a 2,000 capacity, including

1950-529: The leading UK end of life charity for people with any terminal illness including motor neurone disease , Parkinson's and Dementia . The charity continued to use the name of scientist Marie Curie, with permission from her daughter Eve. Following the donation of an engagement ring to help raise money for the charity, the very first appeal was launched and brought in a substantial £4,000. Marie Curie Nurses and Health Care Assistants provide home hospice care for thousands of people with terminal illnesses across

2000-593: The north of the city. The motto of the new hospital was Health is Wealth . During the First World War , the building was requisitioned by the War Office to create the 3rd and 4th Scottish General Hospitals, facilities for the Royal Army Medical Corps to treat military casualties. Wounded servicemen arrived by specially converted hospital trains that terminated at a temporary railway platform built within

2050-423: The point of access. They run on a combination of statutory government NHS funding and voluntary contributions to run. In the financial year 2021/22, they were funded 59% through charitable donations and 41% by the NHS. Marie Curie runs a free, UK-wide support line service to provide practical information and emotional support on all aspects of life with terminal illness, dying and bereavement . The service includes

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2100-460: The works from British Rail Engineering Limited in the wake of the railway privatisation . It closed in 2019. The former Eastfield Running Sheds are now operated as a maintenance depot by ScotRail and part of the former Cowlairs carriage sidings is now operated as a signalling and maintenance depot by Network Rail . Another large industrial company that operated in Springburn was Promat UK, which manufactured Passive fire protection materials at

2150-624: Was closed in 2003. Since closing in the mid-1980s, the Springburn Public Halls were allowed to fall into a state of dereliction and were demolished in December 2012. The Springburn Library building now operates as the Glasgow North Regeneration Agency Conference Centre following a £2 million refurbishment. Many social problems associated with poverty from crime to alcoholism and drug addiction have plagued

2200-522: Was completed in 1988. The regeneration vision remained incomplete, and by the mid-1980s Springburn had become one of Glasgow's most notorious areas, exacerbated by decaying housing and lack of major employers to replace the decline in the railway industry, despite the creation of North Glasgow College (now Glasgow Kelvin College ) at the former North British Locomotive Company headquarters in 1965. Since then, there has however been further efforts to regenerate

2250-625: Was converted to become the Marion Reid Home for the care of babies and very young children in 1936. Stobhill became a teaching hospital in 1937 with the arrival of Noah Morris, Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow Medical School . In 1948 it was transferred to the National Health Service , under the Board of Management for Glasgow Northern Hospitals, and designated one of

2300-703: Was laid in September 1901 by Lord Balfour of Burleigh , the then Secretary of State for Scotland , and Stobhill Hospital was formally opened on 15 September 1904, the same day as the Western District Hospital at Oakbank in Maryhill and the Eastern District Hospital at Duke Street . The original buildings are now graded as category B listed buildings . It was built with 1,867 beds organised in eighteen two-storey red brick Nightingale ward blocks on

2350-528: Was the Speaker of the House of Commons from 2000 to 2009. Other notable locals include: Marie Curie Cancer Care In the financial year 2021/22, the charity supported 66,024 people through its nursing services, hospices and support line calls. It runs nine hospices in Belfast, Bradford, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hampstead, Liverpool, Newcastle, and the West Midlands. The charity's information and support service

2400-448: Was twice higher than the Scottish average and the proportion of children leaving school without Standard Grades was four times higher. The average household income was £ 13,310 and male unemployment stood at 13% – the highest level in Scotland. A study by CACI in 2010 found Springburn to be the most-feared neighbourhood in Scotland for violent crime in a national league table, with 42% of residents living in fear of violence. In 2012,

2450-582: Was used more than 1.2 million times. Marie Curie campaigns on issues affecting people with any illness they're likely to die from, their families and carers, and it's the largest charitable UK funder of palliative and end-of-life care research. Marie Curie was founded in 1948. The Marie Curie Hospital was founded in Hampstead , North London in 1930. It was staffed entirely by women to treat female cancer patients using radiology and had some research facilities too. A successful scientist, Marie Curie gave

2500-517: Was voted the world's best hospital of its size in the 2010 Design and Health International Academy Awards in addition to being recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects and Glasgow Institute of Architects. The design of the hospital was also praised in the Architects' Journal . A 60-bed ward block was added by the same architects in 2011, comprising 12 overnight beds to extend the use of

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