- Balfour Hospital
Infobox Hospital
Name = PAGENAME
Org/Group =NHS Orkney
Caption = Main entrance to the Hospital
Location =Kirkwall ,
Region =Orkney
State =Scotland
Country = UK
HealthCare = NHS
Type = Rural general
Speciality =
Standards =
Emergency = Yes
Affiliation=University of Aberdeen Robert Gordon University
Beds = <100
Founded = 1845
Closed =
Website = http://www.ohb.scot.nhs.uk/Services/hospital/balfour_hospital.htm
Wiki-Links =|Balfour Hospital is a
rural general hospital inKirkwall , run byNHS Orkney . It is the main hospital in theOrkney Islands .ervices
Balfour Hospital has fewer than a hundred beds in six wards. [cite web| url=http://www.ohb.scot.nhs.uk/Services/hospital/balfour_hospital.htm| title=Balfour Hospital| publisher=NHS Orkney| accessdate=2008-08-02]
History
Orkney's first hospital was established in October 1845, in what is today the Kirkwall West End Hotel. In 1836, John Balfour of Trenabie set up a charitable trust for the founding of a hospital with the interest from £20,000 worth of Mexican government bonds. In 1845, the trustees of the hospital fund bought the house from local merchant, James Shearer, together with the two large gardens and blacksmith's shop on the west side of the street, for £450. At first known simply as the Orkney Hospital, it became the Balfour Hospital in 1853, in recognition of the contribution of the Balfour family, a name which continues at Orkney's present hospital in New Scapa Road, Kirkwall. The West End served as a hospital well into the 20th century, its replacement opening in 1927. [cite web| url=http://www.4hotels.co.uk/uk/hotels/westend2.html| title=West End Hotel, Kirkwall| publisher=4hotels.co.uk| accessdate=2008-08-02]
A Macmillan House ward for cancer patients opened in Balfour Hospital in March 2000, its predecessor, at the Eastbank Hospital, had opened in 1993. [cite web| url=http://www.orcadian.co.uk/archive/2003/archive2.htm| title=Orkney News Archive| date= January 6-12, 2003| publisher=Orcadian| accessdate=2008-08-02]
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