The Migdale Hospital is a health facility in

Bonar Bridge Bonar Bridge ( gd, Drochaid a' Bhanna, ) is a village on the north bank of the Kyle of Sutherland to the west and the Dornoch Firth to the east in the Parish of Creich in the Highland council area of Scotland. The Kyle of Sutherland ("the Kyl ...

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. It is managed by

NHS Highland NHS Highland is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. Geographically, it is the largest Health Board, covering an area of from Kintyre in the south-west to Caithness in the north-east, serving a population of 320,000 people. In 2016– ...

History

The facility has its origins in the Sutherland Combination Poorhouse which was designed by Andrew Maitland and completed in 1865. It joined 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 " ...

as the Sworedale Institution in 1948. It was replaced by a modern facility, located closer to

, which was designed by Austin-Smith:Lord and built by Robertson Construction at a cost of £8 million. It opened to patients in June 2011 and was officially opened by Michael Matheson, Minister for Public Health, in August 2012. In 2020 services were reconfigured.

References

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