Public Services
The NHS Ayrshire and Arran Health Board serves South, East and North Ayrshire. Part of Ayrshire and Arran's departmental headquarters is based in Ayr. Ayr used to have four NHS hospitals: Heathfield Hospital (originally a fever hospital, but latterly medical and ophthalmic), Seafield Hospital (children's), Ayr County (originally a voluntary hospital, and latterly confined to surgery) and Ailsa Hospital (psychiatric). It was then decided to build a hospital on the outskirts of Ayr called Ayr Hospital. Ayr Hospital opened in 1993. All the current hospitals are on the same road, next to each other.
Ayr currently has three hospitals:
- Ayr Hospital - Acute hospital with A&E
- Ailsa Hospital - mental health hospital
- The Abbey Carrick Glen Hospital - private hospital
Further along the same road is Hollybush House, used by a charity for the mental health welfare of ex-members of the UK Armed Forces.
Ayr is the regional headquarters of the Scottish Ambulance Service for south-west Scotland. It is located in Heathfield, next to the site of the old Heathfield Hospital, which has now been partly demolished.
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