Community hospital

[citation needed] An older term "cottage hospital" is now no longer applicable, having fallen from use because it inadequately describes the wide range of services being offered by their more modern equivalents.

In Northern Ireland the phrase has similar use to Scotland but official publications give the appearance of community hospitals being more recent as a concept rather than a mere description.

"Community Hospital" is not a statutory phrase but it is often used where there is "a unit or centre providing an appropriate range and format of accessible health care facilities and resources".

[6] Medical care is normally led by GPs, in liaison with consultant, nursing and allied health professional colleagues as necessary.

[7] Community hospitals provide over 2,900 inpatient beds and over 750,000 outpatient, allied health professional and nurse led appointments.

Some further restrict the community hospital definition to only include independently run facilities serving a local demographic.