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NHS Professionals supplies clinical and non-clinical temporary staff to the NHS and provides workforce services to health and care organisations. It operates a membership base of healthcare professionals (known as 'Bank Members') who work flexible shifts and longer-term placements at more than 130 acute and community NHS Trusts and other health and care organisations across the UK and the ...
Staff: 21,921 (2019/20) [2] Website: www.nhslothian.scot: NHS Lothian is one of the 14 regions of NHS Scotland. It provides healthcare services in the City of ...
Approximately 160,000 staff work across 14 regional NHS Boards, seven Special NHS Boards and one public health body, [10] More than 12,000 of these healthcare staff are engaged under independent contractor arrangements. Descriptions of staff numbers can be expressed as headcount and by Whole-Time Equivalent (WTE) which is an estimate that helps ...
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 ...
A major redevelopment of the site to create a modern community hospital, known as East Lothian Community Hospital, was undertaken by Morrison Construction at a cost of £70 million, starting in January 2017. [4] The new East Lothian Community Hospital opened in October 2020. [5]
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 service, like the rest of NHS Scotland, is free at point of access and is widely used by both the public and healthcare professionals. Employing almost 1,300 paramedic staff, and a further 1,200 technicians, the accident and emergency service is accessed through the public 999 system.
The Health and Social Care service was created by the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1948 after the Beveridge Report.From 1948 to 1974, hospitals in the region were managed by the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority and hospital management committees, and then transferred to four health and social services boards, along with responsibility for social care.