A bird's eye view of new hospital

An exciting bird's-eye view of the site of the new Monklands Hospital has been released.

- IAN BUNTING

The eye-catching drone video allows viewers to soar above the landscape at Wester Moffat in Airdrie that will become home to the replacement facility.

The video, showing the former farmland beginning to transform through preparatory groundworks, indicates where key aspects of the new hospital campus will be constructed by NHS Lanarkshire's Monklands Replacement Project (MRP).

It begins by highlighting the location of neighbouring Caldervale High School to enable orientation by the viewer.

Fiona Cowan, MRP clinical lead for nursing, said: "It's inspiring to see the vast extent of the site and envisage where services and facilities will appear as Scotland's most advanced hospital takes shape.