Golden Jubilee National Hospital (Clydebank)

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Originally known as the HCI Hospital, it was built in 1994 as a speculative venture by a now defunct American company called Health Care International, it grew into one of Scotland's hottest political potatoes of the 1990s.

Controversially funded with the help of government grants, the idea was to provide a centre for "medical tourism" so that people from around the world could visit to have operations carried out, hence the reason why there is a hotel built into the complex. For various reasons, the venture was doomed from the very start, and Glasgow ended up with a no expense spared, state-of-the-art, yet largely unused medical facility that the public had no access to whatsoever.

After selling the concern to an Middle Eastern company after HCI went bust, the hospital started to do NHS work, yet still struggled to stay afloat. In 2002 the inevitable happened and the Scottish Executive bought it for the proverbial song and it became a full blown NHS hospital. Today it is a centre for excellence in Cardiology - moving most of this function away from Glasgow Royal Infirmary.