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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 ]
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. Private hospitals that are not under the ...
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 ...
There were initially 15 HBs in 1974 but the Argyll and Clyde HB was abolished and its area absorbed into the Highland and Greater Glasgow HBs on 1 April 2006, with the latter renamed to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. [24] The part of the NHS Argyll and Clyde area which transferred to NHS Highland corresponds to the Argyll and Bute council area.
The facility, which was designed by William Cumming Joass, [2] was built as a memorial to Dr William Ross and opened in 1873. [3] Additions included a new isolation hospital in 1909 and a new maternity wing in 1939 and, after joining the National Health Service in 1948, a new out-patient department opened in 1962.
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, which was founded by the Countess of Seafield in memory of her son, Ian Charles Ogilvy-Grant, opened in 1885. [1] A maternity wing was completed in 1923, [2] and, after joining the National Health Service in 1948, it was further expanded in the 1950s. [1]
The facility has its origins in an infectious diseases hospital, designed by Speirs & Co. and completed in 1897. [1] The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948.