page_title: Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
section_title: Healthcare
hierarchical_section_title: Airdrie, North Lanarkshire / Healthcare
caption_attribution_description: English: Weavers' cottages Weaving was important in the late 18th - early 19thC.
context_page_description: Airdrie is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on a plateau roughly 400 ft above sea level, and is approximately 12 miles east of Glasgow city centre. As of 2012, the town had a population of around 37,130. Historically part of Lanarkshire, Airdrie forms part of a conurbation with its neighbour Coatbridge, in the territory formerly known as the Monklands district.
context_section_description: NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for the healthcare of Airdrie residents. Airdrie is home to Monklands District General Hospital with a 24-hour Accident & Emergency department. The hospital has over 400 beds and provides a  comprehensive service with specialist renal, infectious diseases and ENT departments. Wester Moffat Hospital provides long term care for the elderly. 
  Adjacent to Monklands Hospital is Maggie's Lanarkshire, part of the renowned Maggie's Centres cancer support charity whilst the Beatson Lanarkshire cancer treatment centre opened in 2015. St Andrew's Hospice is a palliative care unit with a strong emphasis on cancer care. It is operated by the Sisters of Charity and partly funded by NHS Lanarkshire. 
  The West Central division of the Scottish Ambulance Service provides accident and emergency, and patient transport services for the town.
  The Parkinson's Self Help Group (North Lanarkshire) is based in the Weavers' Cottages (1780) and provides support for people with Parkinson's disease.
  The SVGCA – Houses for Heroes, a charity providing suitable accommodation for permanently disabled armed forces, police and fire service  personnel, maintains four houses in the town.
  The Scottish Association for Mental Health and the Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health maintain offices in the town.
  In addition there are several medical practices including the state of the art Airdrie Community Health Centre, dental surgeries, nursing homes and opticians throughout Airdrie.
caption: If it wasn't for the weavers, where would the Parkinson's Self Help Group be?
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