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Bruntsfield Hospital

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When Jex-Blake retired and moved away in 1899, the trustees acquired her house, Bruntsfield Lodge, and fitted it out as an 18-bed women's hospital. The hospital committee was led by well-connected women active in various social reform projects such as
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at 73 Grove Street in September 1878. It moved to 6 Grove Street, a building large enough to provide in-patient services, as the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children in 1885.
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in 1948 and closed in 1989. The building was then converted for residential use and is now known as Greenhill Court.
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and the Medical Women's Club at 11 George Square some eleven years previously. A new ward block, designed by
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In 1910 the hospital merged with "The Hospice", a small maternity home which had been established by
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Bruntsfield Hospital and Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital (Lothian Health Services Archive)
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History of Bruntsfield Hospital (Lothian Health Services Archive)
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Three Scottish Women's Hospitals from their foundations to 1948
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Edinburgh Provident Dispensary for Women and Children
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Edinburgh Provident Dispensary for Women and Children
NHS Lothian

Bruntsfield Hospital is located in Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Coordinates
55°56′08″N 3°12′09″W / 55.9355°N 3.2024°W / 55.9355; -3.2024
Care system
NHS Scotland
Emergency department
Hospitals in Scotland
Bruntsfield
Edinburgh


St Giles' Cathedral
public dispensary
Sophia Jex-Blake
Flora Stevenson
Elsie Inglis
Arthur Forman Balfour Paul
Queen Mary
National Health Service



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