[1][2] It was built with 1,867 beds organised in eighteen two-storey red brick Nightingale ward blocks on a sprawling, 47-acre (19-hectare) campus on the edge of Springburn Park.

[5] A staff of 240 Territorial Force nurses as well as volunteers from the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association cared for over 1,000 patients at a time, suffering from battlefield wounds to venereal disease, until the return of the hospital to civilian use in early 1920.

Stobhill became a teaching hospital in 1937 with the arrival of Noah Morris, Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow Medical School.

Extensions followed, including a geriatric unit, which opened in 1953, the first hospital in Scotland to be fitted with a piped oxygen system in 1957,[8] a pharmacy in 1961, a premature baby ward in 1962, the Edward Unit for Mothers and Babies in 1963, a staff library in 1964, the Clinical Teaching Centre and the Group Training School in 1967 and a modern Pathology Department in 1968.

Controversy over this decision resulted in Jean Turner's election as an Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden over this single issue in 2003.

[17] In October 2018, the Sunday Post and local MP Paul Sweeney exposed a major scrap metal theft at disused buildings in the grounds of the hospital,[18] later securing the commitment of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to restore and illuminate the clock tower at the site.

[19] The New Stobhill Hospital provides general outpatient treatment and diagnostic services such as: physiotherapy, podiatry, occupational therapy, drug rehabilitation, dietetics, dermatology, speech and language therapy, renal dialysis, heart and lung investigations, cardiac rehabilitation, elderly day care, diabetic care, dentistry, a chronic pain service, x-rays, CT scans, MRI scans, nuclear medicine, ophthalmology, orthotics, audiology, endoscopy, colposcopy and haematology.

[20] A 2011 extension to the New Stobhill Hospital has 60 inpatient beds in three wards: There is also an in-hours Minor injuries unit (09.00-21.00) and out-of-hours GP service.