NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital

The NHS Louisa Jordan is a temporary emergency critical care hospital created to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland. It is located within the SEC Centre in Glasgow.[1]

NHS Louisa Jordan
NHS Scotland
Facade of SEC Centre, the site of the hospital, in February 2018
Geography
LocationExhibition Way
Glasgow
G3 8YW
Scotland
Coordinates55.86085°N 4.28812°W / 55.86085; -4.28812
Organisation
Care systemNHS Scotland
TypeCOVID-19 critical care
Services
Beds300 initially, up to 1000 as needed
History
Opened19 April 2020

Operated by NHS Scotland, it was planned to have an initial capacity of 300 beds, and the capability of expanding to accommodate 1000.[2] It became operationally ready on 19 April 2020,[3] and was officially opened via video by Princess Anne on 30 April 2020.[4]

The hospital has been partially re-purposed to allow other activities to take place; in August 2020 it was announced that the hospital would be kept open throughout the winter. It was being used as a training hub, along with holding orthopaedic and plastic surgery outpatient consultations.[5] NHS Louisa Jordan will also be holding COVID-19 vaccine clinics from 8 December 2020. [6]

Naming

It is named after Scottish nurse Louisa Jordan, who died in service during the First World War in the Serbian typhus epidemic.[7]

Jordan's family members were grateful for the naming of the hospital. Her great nephew Murray Crone stated: "The members of our family have been very touched by the dedication, as we have been familiar with her story for many years. It is so pleasing that she would be chosen now as a representative of all the volunteers in the Scottish Women’s Hospital during WW1, coping with a Typhus epidemic in Serbia. And, of course, also representing all the present day medical workers doing their utmost at this time, fighting against Covid-19."[8]

Controversy

Significant controversy initially arose from not using the NHS Nightingale Hospitals naming convention which, at the time of completion, had been used to refer to all COVID-19 relief hospitals in the rest of the United Kingdom.[9] This controversy was fuelled by former Labour MP Douglas Alexander criticising the SNP led Scottish government.[10][11]

NHS Wales similarly decided not to use the Nightingale convention and later adopted the name Dragon's Heart Hospital for its primary COVID-19 field hospital following a public consultation.[12]

Further reading
  • Time-lapse video of the construction on YouTube.

References
  1. "NHS Louisa Jordan". Scottish Government News. 1 April 2020.
  2. "Temporary COVID-19 medical facility". Scottish Government News. 1 April 2020.
  3. "Construction of NHS Louisa Jordan complete - gov.scot". www.gov.scot. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  4. "Princess Anne gives royal seal of approval to NHS Louisa Jordan". www.scotsman.com. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  5. "NHS Louisa Jordan". nhsnss.org. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  6. NHS Louisa Jordan ‘to stay open’ over winter 4 August 2020, www.healthandcare.scot, accessed 23 October 2020
  7. "The nurse lending her name to new virus hospital". BBC News. 1 April 2020.
  8. "Louisa Jordan's relatives 'very touched' to see new hospital open". The National.
  9. Smith, Craig (2 April 2020). "Coronavirus: 'Please just stop it' – NHS Fife chair calls for end to hospital naming row". The Courier.
  10. "Unionists fume over decision to name coronavirus hospital after a Scot". The National. 2 April 2020.
  11. "SEC: Row emerges over 'Louisa Jordan Hospital' amid #NightingaleGlasgow 'snub'". Glasgow Times. 2 April 2020.
  12. "Stadium hospital planned 'at breakneck speed'". BBC News. 2020-04-09. Retrieved 2020-04-16.


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