Craigavon Area Hospital

Craigavon Area Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Portadown, Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is the main Hospital in the South of Northern Ireland and serves an estimated 241,000 people from the boroughs/districts of Craigavon, Banbridge, Armagh and Dungannon–South Tyrone.^[1] It is managed by the Southern Health and Social Care Trust and is located within the townland of Lisnisky, beside the A27 road, at the north-eastern edge of Portadown.^[2]

Craigavon Area Hospital
Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Entrance to Craigavon Area Hospital
Location in Northern Ireland
Geography
Location	Portadown, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Coordinates	54.4349°N 6.4103°W / 54.4349; -6.4103
Organisation
Care system	Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland
Type	Teaching hospital
Affiliated university	Queens University, Belfast
Services
Emergency department	Yes (Trauma Centre)
Beds	450
History
Opened	1972
Links
Website	www.southerntrust.hscni.net/1539.htm
Lists	Hospitals in Northern Ireland

History

The hospital, which was commissioned to take on acute services previously carried out at Carleton House, Lurgan Hospital and Banbridge Hospital, opened in 1972.^[1][3] In February 2003 the hospital was designated as one of the nine acute hospitals in the acute hospital network of Northern Ireland on which healthcare would be focused under the government health policy 'Developing Better Services'.^[4]

It was granted University Teaching Hospital status by Queen's University Belfast in June 2011^[5] and a new pediatric ward, built at a cost of £7 million, opened in October 2017.^[6]

Ambulance services

The Southern Division of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) is headquartered at the Ambulance Station that is located within the hospital grounds.^[7]