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Craigavon Area Hospital

Craigavon Area Hospital in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Craigavon Area Hospital is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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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. 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.

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

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Coordinates
54.4349, -6.4103
Address
Portadown, Craigavon
Established
1972

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Craigavon Area Hospital?
Craigavon Area Hospital is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.4349°, -6.4103°.
When was Craigavon Area Hospital built?
Craigavon Area Hospital dates to 1972.