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The health of the Scottish population is, and has been for many years, worse than that of the English. Life expectancy is the lowest in the UK, at 77.1 for men and 81.1 for women, and one of the lowest in the OECD. The gap between Scotland and England has grown since 1980.
Overall, Scotland has a healthy population. The average life expectancy in 2013 was 79.1 years. [4] 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.
Public Health Scotland (PHS; [1] Scottish Gaelic: Slàinte Poblach na h-Alba) is the national public health body for Scotland. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a Special NHS Health Board, and it is jointly accountable to the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) and the Scottish Government .
Drug related (or misuse) mortality rates have begun to rise in Scotland since the 1980s. [6] A variety of factors can be considered to be behind the beginning of the epidemic; Neo-liberal economic restructuring in the 1980s caused parts of large cities in Scotland to go into terminal decline causing income inequality to rise and increased inner city deprivation with the working-class ...
The Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland is a public office to provide scrutiny of care that is independent of both government and the health service.. The commissioner will "advocate for systemic improvement in the safety of health care, including forensic medical examinations, in Scotland and promote the importance of the views of patients and other members of the public in relation to ...
Their Cass Review – implications for Scotland: findings report was published in July 2024 and found that the majority of recommendations were applicable to NHS Scotland to a varying degree, with some modification dealing with differences in the Scottish health service. They recommended that the use of puberty blockers be paused until clinical ...
NHS Scotland had an operating budget of £15.3 billion in 2020/21. [4]Health and social care are devolved issues in the United Kingdom and the separate public healthcare bodies of Scotland, England and Wales are each commonly referred to as "National Health Service".
Health Protection Scotland (HPS) is the organisation that co-ordinates health protection in Scotland. It is part of Public Health Scotland. HPS took over the functions of the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH) in November 2004. [1] Other functions from National Services Scotland were also added. [2] HPS was succeeded ...