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NHS Forth Valley is one of 14 regional health boards [4] and serves a population of around 300,000 in a diverse geographical area which covers the heart of Scotland. The Health Board controls an annual budget of £570 million, and employs around 8000 staff.
The Forth Valley Royal Hospital was designed by Equion, a subsidiary of Laing O'Rourke, and Keppie Designs [1] in cooperation with builders Laing O'Rourke. [2] After a consultation process in 2003, involving 5,600 local residents, [3] it was decided that a new acute hospital should be built to replace the ageing facilities at Stirling Royal Infirmary and Falkirk Royal Infirmary, which were to ...
NHS Scotland, 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 Public Health Scotland.
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.
The NHS National Waiting Times Centre is an NHS Special Board made up of two distinct parts – the Golden Jubilee University National Hospital and the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel. [ 11 ] The hospital is home to the West of Scotland Heart and Lung Centre, [ 12 ] which opened in 2007. [ 13 ]
The facility was established as an infectious diseases hospital in 1910. [1] It joined the National Health Service in 1948. [2] A red brick health centre was built on the site in the 1970s. [1]
After many of the services transferred to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital in 2010, [2] the Stirling Royal Infirmary was downgraded to the status of a community hospital. [1] The site has since been redeveloped as the Stirling Health and Care Village. [3] [4]
After many of the services were transferred to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital, the Falkirk Royal Infirmary was downgraded to the status of community hospital in 2010. [2] The minor injury unit, which treated emergency cases of a non life-threatening nature, closed in July 2011.