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Overall, Scotland has a healthy population. The average life expectancy in 2013 was 79.1 years. [5] However, because Scotland is a country with large rural expanses (i.e. 20% of the population lives across 94% of the land space), there are parts of the population that find it challenging to access some healthcare services.
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 undergraduate medicine MBChB courses at Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen are 5 years long; [2] [3] [4] the MBChB undergraduate degree at Edinburgh is 6 years long; [5] and St Andrews has a 3 year BSc degree before students finish the last 3 years at a partner university to obtain an MBChB/MBBS. [6]
Olivia Brittian MCC RN RM ONC HV CPT, joined the University of Glasgow in 1987. She worked as the Director of Undergraduate Programme in the Nursing and Health Care School, Ms Brittian originally trained in the Victoria Infirmary in 1963 and worked as a Midwifery sister in Nigeria and as a Health Visitor in Glasgow. [20]
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is an NHS board in West Central Scotland, created from the amalgamation of NHS Greater Glasgow and part of NHS Argyll and Clyde on 1 April 2006. [ 2 ] It is the largest health board in both Scotland, and the UK, which consists of the council areas of Glasgow City , East Dunbartonshire , East Renfrewshire ...
The University of Glasgow School of Medicine has a history dating back to its seventeenth-century beginnings. Achievements in medical science include contributions from renowned physicians such as Joseph Lister (antisepsis), George Beatson (breast cancer), John Macintyre (X-rays and radiology), William Hunter (anatomy and obstetrics) and Ian Donald (ultrasound).
The hospital was formally renamed the Southern General Hospital in 1923 and it joined the National Health Service in 1948. [ 1 ] Upgrading of the hospital's facilities began during the 1950s and culminated in the opening of a new maternity unit in 1970 and the completion of the Institute of Neurological Sciences in 1972, [ 1 ] where the Glasgow ...
The Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) is a large teaching hospital. With a capacity of around 1,000 beds, the hospital campus covers an area of around 8 hectares (20 acres), and straddles the Townhead and Dennistoun districts on the north-eastern fringe of the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.