The facility has its origins in an infectious diseases hospital, designed by Speirs & Co. and completed in 1897.

[1] The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948.

New facilities were procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2004.

[2] The new building, which was designed by HLM Architects and built by Balfour Beatty at a cost of £19.2 million,[3] opened in 2007.

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