The hospital was located in Linthouse in the south west of Glasgow, Scotland.

The hospital had its origins in the Govan Combination Poorhouse located in old cavalry barracks at Eglinton Street in 1852.

[1] Upgrading of the hospital's facilities began during the 1950s and culminated in the opening of a new maternity unit in 1970 and the completion of the Institute of Neurological Sciences in 1972,[1] where the Glasgow Coma Scale was devised by Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett in 1974.

[3] The Langlands Building, which provides care for the elderly, was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 1999, was built by Carillion and opened in 2001.

[4] The laboratory, established to process results from hospitals all around Scotland, cost £90 million and opened in 2012.