maternity unit at the Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital that was colloquially known as Rottenrow, which was already very old and unfit for purpose. Donald's first objective was to obtain the money to build the hospital. He contacted the Scottish Office repeatedly until he received funding but it was insufficient to build the whole hospital: a sum of £800,000 was needed. Donald then turned to Glasgow University to request more funding and it was secured by Hetherington. When the Western Regional Hospital Board decided to build the hospital in the grounds of the old Robroyston hospital in the north-east of Glasgow, Hetherington quietly stood up during the meeting and stated: "You must excuse me, gentleman, for you must know that if the proposal goes ahead the university can have no further interest in the project." The planning board reversed their decision and agreed to build the hospital in Yorkhill, next to the Royal Hospital for Children. In early 1958, Donald appointed the architect Joseph Lea Gleave, and together they produced a new design for a 112-bed maternity hospital. Traditionally, maternity hospitals consisted of two wards: antenatal and postnatal. Antenatal wards were for undelivered patients, and postnatal for patients who were recovering from delivery. Wards were communal with privacy guaranteed by curtains. Deliveries would generally take place in the labour ward, and only complicated deliveries or Caesarean sections were taken to the operating theatre. Donald's plan was for a hospital with a central block with four wings. The central block had separate nursing, medical, and anaesthetic staff, a separate delivery room for each woman, and two operating rooms for complicated cases. The east wing had a separate room for each woman and was reserved for complicated cases. The other wings were shared among senior consultants with their own junior staff in small four- and six-bed wards. Antenatal and postnatal women were mixed. At the end of the hospital was the university department and tower block for residents and nursing staff. Construction began in June 1960 and Donald appointed Marr to be the master of works, who would give progress reports to Donald each day. The name of the new hospital was chosen by Donald, who was a great admirer of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The hospital was the first to have a separate ultrasound examination room. In 1961, Donald wrote a detailed article in the Scottish Medical Journal for