Gartnavel General Hospital is a teaching hospital in the West End of Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. The hospital is located next to the Great Western Road, between Hyndland

Hyndland

Hyndland is a residential area in the West End of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.Bordering the Broomhill, Maryhill, Dowanhill, Kelvinside and Partickhill areas, it is a middle-class area populated mainly by professionals and young bourgeois bohemians including a number of noted authors, poets,...

, Anniesland

Anniesland

Anniesland is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde, and centres around the junction of the Great Western Road and Crow Road; also known as Anniesland Cross....

 and Kelvindale

Kelvindale

Kelvindale is a district in the west of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.-Construction:Construction started in the late 1920s with work being undertaken by the City Corporation. This was followed up in the early 1930s by the Glasgow-based housebuilding company Mactaggart and Mickel...

. Hyndland railway station

Hyndland railway station

Hyndland railway station is a railway station in Hyndland in Glasgow, Scotland. The station is 5 km west of Glasgow Central and 4 km west of Glasgow Queen Street on the Argyle and North Clyde Lines...

 is adjacent to the hospital. The name Gartnavel is derived from the Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic language

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 Gart (field or enclosure) Ubhal (apple) - i.e. field of apple trees.

The hospital was opened in December 1972 beside the existing Gartnavel Royal Hospital

Gartnavel Royal Hospital

Gartnavel Royal Hospital is a mental health facility based in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland. It provides inpatient psychiatric care for the population of the West of the City; covering Hillhead, Partick, Scotstoun, Yoker, Clydebank, Drumchapel, Bearsden and Milngavie...

, to house units from the Western Infirmary

Western Infirmary

The Western Infirmary is a teaching hospital situated in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland. There is also a Maggie's centre at the hospital to help cancer patients, as well as the Glasgow Clinical Research Facility....

 that were relocating while the hospital buildings were being demolished and replaced. The hospital was formally opened by Princess Alexandra

Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy

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 in 1973.

Originally a single eight storey block containing 576 beds standing on a three storey podium, further buildings have since been added, with the most recent being a new cancer care centre to replace the current Beatson Oncology Centre

Beatson Oncology Centre

The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre is a specialised cancer care centre in Glasgow, Scotland. Until recently it had facilities in Gartnavel General Hospital, the Western Infirmary and Glasgow Royal Infirmary...

 facilities that are currently spread between Gartnavel, the Western Infirmary and the Royal Infirmary

Glasgow Royal Infirmary

The Glasgow Royal Infirmary is a large teaching hospital, operated by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde,. With a capacity of around 1000 beds, the hospital campus covers an area of around 20 acres, situated on the north-eastern edge of the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland.-History:Designed by Robert...

.

The Brownlee Centre for Infectious and Communicable Disease

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s opened in 1998, replacing services and research laboratories at the city's Ruchill

Ruchill

Ruchill is a district in the city of Glasgow. It lies within the Canal Ward of North Glasgow in the area between the Maryhill and Possilpark areas of the city. It has traditionally been characterised by a high degree of deprivation and social problems...

 Hospital. It is one of four laboratories in the UK on the WHO

World Health Organization

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 list of laboratories able to perform PCR

Polymerase chain reaction

The polymerase chain reaction is a scientific technique in molecular biology to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence....

 for rapid diagnosis of influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in humans.