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The Highlands and Islands Medical Service ( HIMS) provided state funded healthcare to a population covering half of Scotland's landmass from its launch in 1913 until the creation of Scotland's National Health Service (NHS) in 1948. Though treatment was not free, unlike NHS Scotland which succeeded it, fees were set at minimal levels and people ...
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, one of the largest acute hospital campuses in Europe. [1] [2]The following is a list of acute, general district, and mental health hospitals currently open and operational in Scotland, organised into each of the 14 regional health boards of NHS Scotland.
Cumbria from 1974 had three district health authorities South, East and West In 1993 South Cumbria was renamed Morecambe Bay District, which also included Lancaster. One Primary care trust was established covering the whole the county in 2002. It was managed by the North West Strategic Health Authority from 2002 until 2013.
NHS Scotland ( Scottish Gaelic: SNS na h-Alba ), sometimes styled NHSScotland, is the publicly–funded healthcare system in Scotland and one of the four systems that make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It operates 14 territorial NHS boards across Scotland, supported by seven special non-geographic health boards, and ...
NHS Health Scotland was established on 1 April 2003, by the merger of the Health Education Board for Scotland ( HEBS) and the Public Health Institute of Scotland ( PHIS ). [2] It was dissolved by the establishment of Public Health Scotland on 1 April 2020. It employed about 280 staff. [3] The work of the agency was focussed on: NHS Health ...
NHS Highland. NHS Highland is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. Geographically, it is the largest Health Board, covering an area of 32,500 km 2 (12,500 sq mi) from Kintyre in the south-west to Caithness in the north-east, serving a population of 320,000 people. [3] In 2016–17 it had an operating budget of £780 million. [4]
This list of NHS trusts in England provides details of current and former English NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, acute hospital trusts, ambulance trusts, mental health trusts, and the unique Isle of Wight NHS Trust. As of April 2020, 217 extant trusts employed about 800,000 of the NHS's 1.2 million staff. [1]
Public Health Scotland (PHS [1]) ( Scottish Gaelic: Slàinte Poblach na h-Alba) is the national public health body for Scotland. [2] [3] It is a Special NHS Health Board, and it is jointly accountable to the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) and the Scottish Government. Fully exercising its functions from 1 April 2020 as Scotland ...