Bridge of Earn Hospital

The Bridge of Earn Hospital was a health facility in Bridge of Earn, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

Bridge of Earn Hospital
The remains of the hospital
Shown in Perth and Kinross
Geography
Location	Bridge of Earn, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom
Coordinates	56.3459°N 3.3916°W / 56.3459; -3.3916
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Type	District General
History
Opened	1939
Closed	1992
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Scotland

History

The facility was designed as one of seven Emergency Hospital Service facilities and opened in 1939.^[1] It accommodated evacuees from other hospitals as well as some injured German prisoners of war during the Second World War.^[1] Patients were transferred from the rehabilitation unit at Gleneagles Hotel in 1946 and from the orthopedic unit at Larbert in 1947.^[1] It became part of the National Health Service in 1948.and functioned as a large general hospital with general medical, general surgical, orthopaedic and plastic surgery units.^[2] Among the surgeons who worked there was Ian Scott Smillie who became an authority on knee surgery.^[3] The hospital closed in 1992 and the buildings were demolished in 2006.^[1] The site has since been developed as Oudenarde Village.^[1] Its archives are held by Archive Services, University of Dundee.^[4]