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The hospital serves the town of Dumfries and the catchment area of South West Scotland with a population of c.150,000. [12] It is made up entirely of single rooms, 344 of them, each with a computer point to allow real-time updating of patient records. [1] The hospital is a supporter of The Princess Royal Trust for Carers. [13]
The NHS in Scotland does have some services provided by the NHS in England – such as NHS Business Services Authority, which processes the payment of dental, optical and pharmacy vouchers and negotiates with pharmaceutical suppliers to negotiate prices per-item down. The costs for the medicines consumed is borne by the health board that ...
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.
NHS dentistry has often struggled to even see 55% of the population in a one-year period. [6]Following the government's introduction of a new contract in April 2006, NHS dentistry is not as widely available as it once was, [7] with 900,000 fewer patients seeing an NHS dentist in 2008 and 300,000 losing their NHS dentist in a single month. [8]
The Chief Dental Officers (or CDOs) in the United Kingdom are the most senior advisors for dentistry in each of the four UK governments, and are the heads of the dental profession. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The CDO is one of the six chief professional officers, one for each of six professions, to give advice in their respective speciality.
The site comprises the Victoria Infirmary Building, the Jeanie Deans Centre, the Community Base and the Out-Patient Department. [7] The Victoria Infirmary Building is now little used. [8]
It is the only site for liver, pancreas, and pancreatic islet cell transplantation in Scotland, and one of the country's two sites for kidney transplantation. [5] In 2012, the Emergency Department had 113,000 patient attendances, the highest number in Scotland. [6] It is managed by NHS Lothian.
The NHS in Scotland consists of approximately 161,000 employees, 9.2% of whom are medical or dental doctors, 42.9% nurses and midwives, 18.2% administrative services, 3.9% healthcare scientists, and the remaining 25.8% in various other medical services. [8] In the past several years, healthcare costs have been rising in Scotland.