Belvoir Park Hospital

Hospital in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
54°32′39″N 5°55′56″W / 54.54409°N 5.93223°W / 54.54409; -5.93223OrganisationCare systemHealth and Social Care in Northern IrelandTypeSpecialisedServicesEmergency departmentNo Accident & EmergencyHistoryOpened1906ClosedMarch 2006LinksListsHospitals in Northern Ireland

Belvoir Park Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Pháirc Belvoir) was a cancer treatment specialist hospital situated in Newtownbreda, South Belfast, Northern Ireland. Belvoir Park held Northern Ireland's only radiotherapy unit, until the opening of a new cancer treatment centre in Belfast City Hospital.

History

The hospital, which was designed by Young and McKenzie, opened as the Purdysburn Fever Hospital in 1906.[1] The facility became known as Montgomery House in 1953 and it then became Belvoir Park Hospital in the 1960s.[2]

The hospital became the main regional centre for oncology, offering radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments[3] and in 1983, the hospital was the first in the province to take delivery of a CT scanner. Friends of Montgomery House, a charity founded by Dr Gerard Lynch to help cancer sufferers and their families, was established in 1984[4] and the hospital's Gerard Lynch Centre held many cancer support groups, in order to aid both sufferers and their families.[5]

After services had been transferred to Belfast City Hospital, the hospital closed in March 2006.[2] In June 2014 the site was sold to a private developer known as the Neptune Group.[2] Neptune Group have since restored some of the original buildings to function as modern townhouses, and the first showhomes were opened in June 2017.[6]

See also

  • Cancer treatment
  • Belfast City Hospital

References

  1. ^ Reeves-Smyth, Terence; Smith, Philip. "An Early Eighteenth Century Garden Bosquet at Purdysburn, Co. Down" (PDF). Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Trust. p. 13. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Historic Belast Hospital may be transformed into new homes". Belfast Telegraph. 11 February 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  3. ^ Bloomfield, Sir Kenneth (2008). A New Life. Belfast: The Brehon Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-905474-26-4.
  4. ^ "Who we are". Friends of the Cancer Centre. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Standing beside Northern Irish cancer patients for 30 years - it's time to celebrate Friends of the Cancer Centre". Belfast Live. 28 June 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  6. ^ "New Showhome showcases the Edwardian splendour of the Pavilions at Belvoir Park". www.neptunegroup.com. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
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