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Following the Health and Social Care Act 2012, NICE was renamed the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on 1 April 2013 reflecting its new responsibilities for social care, and changed from a special health authority to an executive non-departmental public body (NDPB). NICE was established in an attempt to end the so-called ...
427 FTE (2018/19) Website. www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org. Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) (Scottish Gaelic: Leasachadh Cùram Slàinte na h-Alba) is the national healthcare improvement organisation for Scotland. It is a public body which is part of the Scottish National Health Service, created in April 2011.
In April 2024, BetterCareScotland called on the Scottish Parliament to address the need for independent oversight of social care regulation in Scotland by a professional body with risk management, regulatory, compliance, analytical & lay expertise to eradicate poor practices that expose women to the risk of abuse in care homes for older people ...
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.
Gestational diabetes is a condition in which a woman without diabetes develops high blood sugar levels during pregnancy. [2] Gestational diabetes generally results in few symptoms; [2] however, obesity increases the rate of pre-eclampsia, cesarean sections, and embryo macrosomia, as well as gestational diabetes. [2]
David Allan's painting of Highland wedding from 1780. In the late Middle Ages and early modern era, girls could marry from the age of 12 (while for boys it was from 14) and, while many girls from the social elite married in their teens, most in the Lowlands married only after a period of life-cycle [clarification needed] service, in their twenties. [3]
Linda Bauld. Linda Caroline Bauld OBE FRCPE FRSE FAcSS FFPH (born 2 June 1970) is the Bruce and John Usher Chair of Public Health in The Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh [1] and Chief Social Policy Advisor to the Scottish government. [3]
t. e. The Minister for Public Health and Women's Health is a junior ministerial post in the Scottish Government. The minister is not a member of the Scottish Cabinet, however, they report to the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care. The current minister is Jenni Minto, who was appointed by First Minister Humza Yousaf on 29 ...