NHS Tayside is an

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which forms one of the fourteen regions of

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. It provides healthcare services in Angus, the

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and

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland ...

. NHS Tayside is headquartered at

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; one of the largest hospitals in the world. It has three

Health and Social Care Partnership Health and Social Care Partnerships, (HSCPs) are organisations formed to integrate services provided by Health Boards and Councils in Scotland. Each partnership is jointly run by the NHS and local authority. There are 31 HSCPs across Scotland. The ...

s (HSCPs): Angus, Dundee and Perth and Kinross.

Performance

In July 2020 the board announced that it had achieved the Scottish Government’s 2024 target of a 90% reduction in prevalence of

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, after 1970 people were diagnosed and treated, making it the first region in the world to effectively eliminate the virus. It signed a five-year agreement with

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to deploy Miya Observations, an electronic monitoring system which alerts clinical staff when patients show signs of deterioration, in 2022.

History

NHS Tayside was originally formed as Tayside Health Board in April 1974. It replaced the

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, that had been created in July 1948, as having the responsibility for managing hospital provision in Dundee, Angus and Perth and Kinross. It also took over the functions of Dundee Mental Hospitals (Board of Management), which had been formed in 1948 to administer mental health provision within Dundee. It was organised into three

Community Health Partnership Community Health Partnerships, known as CHPs (pronounced ''Chips'') were subdivisions of Health Boards in Scotland, from 2005 to 2015, after which their functions were fully taken over by Health and Social Care Partnerships in April 2015. CHPs h ...

s (CHPs): Angus, Dundee and Perth, which were replaced by health and social Care Partnerships that became fully operational in April 2016. it is responsible for the governance of 3 major hospitals, several community hospitals and over 60 GP surgeries and other health centres. These employ over 30,000 staff.

Change of administrators

In April 2018 a new chairman and chief executive were appointed to run NHS Tayside as a "special measure" by the Scottish Government, after Health Secretary Shona Robison said there were concerns about whether NHS Tayside could manage it own finances. Crisis-hit NHS Tayside chiefs replaced, BBC News, 6 April 2018
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Hospitals

Angus

Arbroath Infirmary Arbroath Infirmary is a hospital at the top of Rosemount Road in Arbroath serving the town and the greater area of Angus, Scotland. The hospital is managed by NHS Tayside. History The origins of Arbroath Infirmary can be traced back to 1836 wh ...

Stracathro Hospital Stracathro Hospital is a community hospital in Angus, Scotland. Established as a wartime Emergency Hospital Service facility during the Second World War, it was afterward developed as a District General Hospital. Since 2005 it has been the site o ...

Brechin Brechin (; gd, Breichin) is a city and former Royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin was described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese (which continues today ...

* Whitehills Hospital,

Forfar Forfar ( sco, Farfar, gd, Baile Fharfair) is the county town of Angus, Scotland and the administrative centre for Angus Council, with a new multi-million pound office complex located on the outskirts of the town. As of 2021, the town has a pop ...

City of Dundee

Carseview Centre The Carseview Centre is a mental health unit in the grounds of Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Tayside. History The centre, which was built at a cost of £10 million as an adult acute in-patient care centre for the ...

* Dundee Dental Hospital *

King's Cross Hospital King's Cross Hospital, often shortened to King's Cross is a hospital in Dundee, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Tayside. History King's Cross opened in November 1889 at a site in Clepington Road, Dundee. It was the city's first permanent fever ho ...

(includes

Medical School) * Royal Victoria Hospital (Dundee) *

Tayside Children's Hospital Tayside Children's Hospital is a children's facility which is attached to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Scotland. It delivers services to children who live in Dundee, Angus, Perth and Kinross and north east Fife and is managed by NHS Tayside. Hi ...

Perth and Kinross

Within Perth

Murray Royal Hospital The Murray Royal Hospital is a mental-health facility in Perth, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Tayside. The original main building is a Category A listed building. History The hospital arose from a bequest by James Murray, a local man who had i ...

* Perth Royal Infirmary

Outwith Perth

* Blairgowrie Community Hospital * Crieff Community Hospital * Pitlochry Community Hospital * St Margaret's Hospital,

Auchterarder Auchterarder (; gd, Uachdar Àrdair, meaning Upper Highland) is a small town located north of the Ochil Hills in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and home to the Gleneagles Hotel. The High Street of Auchterarder gave the town its popular name of "T ...

References

External links

* {{Authority control Tayside 2006 establishments in Scotland University of Dundee Health in Dundee Organisations based in Dundee