{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use British English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Princess Royal Maternity Hospital | org_group = NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | logo = | logo_size = | image = M8 Motorway, Glasgow - geograph.org.uk - 2930380.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = The new maternity hospital | location = Alexandra Parade, Glasgow, Scotland | region = | state = | country = | healthcare = NHS Scotland | funding = | type = Specialist | affiliation = | patron = | network = | standards = | emergency = | beds = | speciality = Maternity | helipad = | h1-number = | h1-length-f = | h1-length-m = | h1-surface = <!-- up to h12 --> | founded = <!-- cite in article as well -->1834 | closed = | demolished = | website = {{Official URL}} | module = | pushpin_map = Scotland Glasgow | pushpin_map_caption = Shown in Glasgow | coordinates = {{coord|55.8651|N|4.2308|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}} }} The '''Princess Royal Maternity Hospital''' is a maternity hospital in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded as the Glasgow Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary in 1834 in Greyfriars Wynd, just off the city's High Street.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Glasgow |url=https://www.electricscotland.com/history/glasgow/glasgow42.htm |website=www.electricscotland.com |access-date=31 December 2018}}</ref> It moved to St Andrew's Square in 1841, then to Rottenrow in 1860 and to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary site in 2001. It is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.<ref>{{cite web|title=Records of Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland|url=http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/hb45.html|website=www.archives.gla.ac.uk|access-date=26 November 2017|language=en|date=4 February 2009}}</ref>

==History== thumb|left|Remains of the demolished Rottenrow building The hospital was founded in Greyfriars Wynd as the Glasgow Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary in 1834.<ref name=archives>{{cite web|title=Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital, Glasgow|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=843|website=www.nationalarchives.gov.uk|access-date=26 November 2017}}</ref> Lying-in is an archaic term for childbirth (referring to the month-long bedrest prescribed for postpartum confinement). A dispensary was a place to receive medicine; see for context the Dispensary movement in Manchester.<ref name=pickstone1985p51>{{cite book |title=Medicine and Industrial Society: A History of Hospital Development in Manchester and Its Region, 1752-1946 |first=John V. |last=Pickstone |author-link=John Pickstone |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=1985 |pages=51–54 |isbn=9780719018091 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA8NAQAAIAAJ}}</ref>

The hospital moved to St Andrew's Square in 1841<ref name=archives /> and to Rottenrow in 1860.<ref name=archives /> New buildings were erected on the Rottenrow site in 1881.<ref name=rcpsg />

A West End branch opened in St. Vincent Street in 1888,<ref name=rcpsg /> the same year that Murdoch Cameron performed the world's first modern Caesarean section.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dunn|first1=Etta|title=Central Glasgow Through Time|date=2014|publisher=Amberley Publishing|location=Gloucestershire|isbn=978-1-4456-3870-6|page=50}}</ref> An extension was added in 1908<ref name=rcpsg /> and the title "Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital" was granted in 1914.<ref name=archives /> A clinical laboratory opened in 1926<ref name=rcpsg /> and a nurses' home was opened in 1928.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Williamson|first1=Elizabeth|last2=Riches|first2=Anne|last3=Higgs|first3=Malcolm|title=Glasgow|date=2005|publisher=Yale Univ. Press|location=New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]|isbn=978-0-300-09674-3|page=146}}</ref>

The West End branch closed in 1941 after it was damaged in an air raid<ref name=rcpsg>{{cite web|title=Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital|url=https://rcpsg.ac.uk/library/collections/archive-collections/354-glasgow-royal-maternity-hospital|website=rcpsg.ac.uk|access-date=26 November 2017|language=en-gb}}</ref> and a new out-patients department opened in 1955.<ref name=rcpsg /> The title "Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital" was adopted in 1960.<ref name=archives />

After the old building in Rottenrow had fallen into a state of disrepair, the hospital moved to a new building on the Glasgow Royal Infirmary site in October 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rottenrow makes way for the future|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12141759.Rottenrow_makes_way_for_the_future/|website=HeraldScotland|date=9 October 2001|access-date=26 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> The new facility was named the "Princess Royal Maternity Hospital".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nhsggc.org.uk/media/214185/04-28.pdf|page=3|title=Modernising Maternity Services: Outcome of Consultation|date=20 April 2004|publisher=Greater Glasgow NHS Board|access-date=30 December 2018}}</ref>

Meanwhile, the Rottenrow building was acquired and demolished by the University of Strathclyde.<ref name=Scotsman>{{cite web|title=Lost Glasgow: Rottenrow hospital|url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/lost-glasgow-rottenrow-hospital-1-2482987|website=www.scotsman.com|access-date=26 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> The university re-opened the site as Rottenrow Gardens in October 2003.<ref name=UoS>{{cite web|last1=Leitch|first1=John|title=Rottenrow Garden - University of Strathclyde|url=https://www.strath.ac.uk/estates/project/estates/rottenrow/|website=www.strath.ac.uk|access-date=26 November 2017|language=en}}</ref>

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== External links == * {{Official website}} * [http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/our_work/inspecting_and_regulating_care/nhs_hospitals_and_services/nhs_greater_glasgow_and_clyde/princess_royal_maternity.aspx Healthcare Improvement Scotland inspection reports]

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