The Lurgan Hospital is a health facility in Sloan Street,

Lurgan Lurgan () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, near the southern shore of Lough Neagh. Lurgan is about south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin railway line. It had a population ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

. It is managed by the

Southern Health and Social Care Trust The Southern Health and Social Care Trust (Irish: ) provides health and social care services in Northern Ireland. It runs Craigavon Area Hospital, Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry, Lurgan Hospital and South Tyrone Hospital as well as Armagh Commun ...

History

The facility has its origins in the Lurgan Union Workhouse which was designed by George Wilkinson and was completed in January 1841. It became the Lurgan and Portadown District Hospital in 1929 and, after joining the

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

in 1948, evolved to become Lurgan Hospital. Nurse training, which had been established at Lurgan during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

transferred to the

Craigavon Area Hospital Craigavon Area Hospital ( ga, Ospidéal Cheantar Craigavon) is a teaching hospital in Portadown, Craigavon, County Armagh, Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It serves an estimated 241,000 people from the boroughs/districts of Craigavon B ...

in 1970. In June 2014 the trust began a consultation on the transfer of stoke inpatient services from Lurgan Hospital to Craigavon Area Hospital.

References

Southern Health and Social Care Trust Hospitals established in 1841 1841 establishments in Ireland Hospital buildings completed in 1841 Health and Social Care (Northern Ireland) hospitals Hospitals in County Armagh 19th-century architecture in Northern Ireland {{UK-hospital-stub