Belvoir Park Hospital Explained

Belvoir Park Hospital
Org/Group:Belfast City Hospital Trust
Location:Newtownbreda
Region:Belfast
State:Northern Ireland
Country:United Kingdom
Healthcare:Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland
Type:Specialised
Speciality:Cancer treatment; radiotherapy
Emergency:No
Founded:1906
Closed:March 2006
Map Type:Northern Ireland
Coordinates:54.5441°N -5.9322°W

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

Notes and References

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