The military base provides its own health care, but makes use of the hospital facilities as necessary.

[1] In April 1984, a fire destroyed an earlier wooden construction of the hospital, killing seven patients and one nurse, Barbara Chick.

[2] The hospital must be entirely self-sufficient and takes referrals from Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia, and Antarctica.

The GPs have to provide all medical care apart from surgery or anaesthesia, supported by visiting specialists, mostly from the UK who help to keep them up to date.

In 2022 the first assisted living facility for the islands, to be called Tussac House, was commissioned from Scotframe in Inverurie.

It will have 32 extra care apartments made up of one and two-bedroom units, as well as single bed, short-term accommodation.