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Healthcare In Scotland
Healthcare in Scotland is mainly provided by Scotland's public health service, NHS Scotland. It provides healthcare to all permanent residents free at the point of need and paid for from general taxation. Health is a matter that is Devolution in the United Kingdom, devolved, and considerable differences have developed between the public healthcare systems in the countries of the United Kingdom, collectively the National Health Service (NHS). Though the public system dominates healthcare provision, private healthcare and a wide variety of alternative and complementary treatments are available for those willing and able to pay. Health in Scotland Overall, Scotland has a healthy population. The average life expectancy in 2013 was 79.1 years. 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. This problem is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Gray
Neil Charles Gray (born 16 March 1986) is a Scottish politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care since 2024. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Airdrie & Shotts since 2021. Gray previously served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the equivalent Westminster seat from 2015 to 2021. He served as Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Fair Work and Energy from 2023 to 2024, and Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development from 2022 to 2023. Early life Gray was born and brought up in Orkney, and was educated at Kirkwall Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Stirling in 2008 with a first-class Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in politics and journalism. Following his graduation, Gray was employed as a producer and reporter with BBC Radio Orkney from 2003 until 2008. Political career Early years Gray worked as a press and research intern for the SNP pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Hospitals In Scotland
The following is a list of Acute (medicine), 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 operational overview of NHS Scotland are also included. NHS hospitals in Scotland Organised by NHS Scotland, NHS board areas, see NHS National Services Scotland and Subdivisions of Scotland. NHS Ayrshire and Arran, Ayrshire and Arran East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire East Ayrshire *East Ayrshire Community Hospital, Cumnock *Kirklandside Hospital, Hurlford *University Hospital Crosshouse, Crosshouse, Kilmarnock North Ayrshire *Arran War Memorial Hospital, Lamlash, Isle of Arran *Ayrshire Central Hospital, Irvine, North Ayrshire, Irvine *Brooksby House Hospital, Largs *Lady Margaret Hospital, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Millport, Great Cumbrae, Isle of Cumbrae *Woodland View, Irvine, North Ayrshire, Irvine South A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Healthcare In The United Kingdom
Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolution, devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision. As a result of each country having different policies and priorities, a variety of differences have developed between these systems since devolution. * Healthcare in England * Healthcare in Wales * Healthcare in Scotland * Health care in Northern Ireland, Healthcare in Northern Ireland Despite there being separate health services for each country, the performance of the National Health Service (NHS) across the UK can be measured for the purpose of making international comparisons. In a 2017 report by the Commonwealth Fund ranking developed-country healthcare systems, the United Kingdom was ranked the best healthcare system in the world overall and was ranked the best in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Health Scotland
Public Health Scotland (PHS; ) is the national public health body for Scotland. It is a Special NHS Health Board, and it is jointly accountable to the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) and the Scottish Government. Fully exercising its functions from 1 April 2020 as Scotland's leading national agency for improving and protecting the health and well-being of all of Scotland's people, it is jointly sponsored by COSLA and the Scottish Government, and collaborates with third sector organisations. Its role is to increase healthy life expectancy and reduce premature mortality. Areas of focus are COVID-19, mental health and well-being, community and place, and poverty and children. The board's first chief executive was Angela Leitch, formerly chief executive of East Lothian Council. Paul Johnston, formerly a Director General within the Scottish Government, took over the role in 2023. __NOTOC__ __TOC__ Origins The board arose from a reorganisation of public health in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Development
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; , OCDE) is an international organization, intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and international trade, world trade. It is a forum (legal), forum whose member countries describe themselves as committed to democracy and the market economy, providing a platform to compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practices, and coordinate domestic and international policies of its members. The majority of OECD members are generally regarded as developed country, developed countries, with High-income economy, high-income economies, and a very high Human Development Index. their collective population is 1.38 billion people with an average life expectancy of 80 years and a median age of 40, against a global average of 30. , OECD Member countries collectively comprised 62.2% of list of countries by GDP (nominal), global nom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) () 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. History NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) was established on 1 January 2003 as a special health board with a remit to improve the quality of healthcare in Scotland. Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) was established by the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, taking over the work of QIS and the regulatory functions, in regard to independent healthcare provision, previously conducted by the Care Commission, now renamed the Care Inspectorate. The first chair of HIS, serving from 2010 to 2018, was Dame Denise Coia. The function of this body is to implement the healthcare priorities of the Scottish Government, in particular the Healthcare Quality Strategy of NHS Scotland. Units Healthcare Improvement Scotland incorporates several organisations: * Healthcare E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NTC Fife
NTC may refer to: Education * Fort Irwin National Training Center, US Army training * Luther W. New Jr. Theological College, Dehradun, India * National Taitung Junior College, a college in Taitung County, Taiwan * National Technology Council (Pakistan) * National Teachers College, Philippines * National Trade Certificate Foundation, Mauritius * Nazarene Theological College (England) * New Teacher Center, US * Northcentral Technical College, US * Northfleet Technology College, UK * The Nautical Training Corps, UK Government * National Telecommunications Commission, Philippines * National Tracing Center, US firearms tracing facility * National Transitional Council (Congo) * National Transitional Council, Libya, August 2011–August 2012 * National Transport Commission, Australia * White House National Trade Council, established by US President Trump Telecommunications * Nepal Telecom * NTC Televisión, Colombia Other uses * Football South Australia National Training Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Vitro Fertilisation
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation in which an ovum, egg is combined with spermatozoon, sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating the Ovulation cycle, ovulatory process, then removing an ovum or ova (egg or eggs) from the ovary, ovaries and enabling sperm to fertilise them in a culture medium in a laboratory. After a fertilised egg (zygote) undergoes embryo culture for 2–6 days, it is Embryo transfer, transferred by catheter into the uterus, with the intention of establishing a successful pregnancy. IVF is a type of assisted reproductive technology used to treat infertility, enable gestational surrogacy, and, in combination with pre-implantation genetic testing, avoid the transmission of abnormal genetic conditions. When a fertilised egg from egg and sperm donors Implantation (embryology), implants in the uterus of a genetically unrelated surrogate, the resulting child is also genetically unrelated to the surrogate. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuffield Health
Nuffield Health is the United Kingdom's largest healthcare charity. Established in 1957 the charity operates 31 Nuffield Health Hospitals and 112 Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing Centres. It is independent of the National Health Service and is constituted as a registered charity. Its objectives are to 'advance, promote and maintain health and healthcare of all descriptions and to prevent, relieve and cure sickness and ill health of any kind, all for the public benefit.' As a private provider, fees are charged to patients. In 2022, Nuffield Health had an annual gross income of £1.238billion, making it the second largest charity operating in the UK. Nuffield Health operates 250 facilities including 31 private hospitals (29 in England, one in Glasgow, Scotland and a joint venture, Cardiff & Vale, Wales), 113 fitness and wellbeing centres across the UK, and five medical centres. History On 14 January 1957, the British United Provident Association ( BUPA) established the Nurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Scotland
The COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland is part of the COVID-19 pandemic of COVID-19, coronavirus disease-2019, caused by the virus Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Scotland on 1 March 2020. Community transmission was first reported on 11 March 2020, and the first confirmed death was on 13 March 2020. COVID-19 became a Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom, notifiable disease in Scotland on 22 February 2020. The first cases were detected in Scotland in the following weeks. By 16 March and following the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, outbreak in Italy, and based on forecasting by epidemiologists at Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, Imperial College London—the Scottish Government advised the public to avoid all "non-essential" travel and contact with others, and to remote work if possible. Those with symptoms, and their household, were asked to Isolation (health care)#Self-isolation, self-isolate. Pregnant w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NHS Highland
NHS Highland () is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. Geographically, it is the largest Health Board, covering an area of from Kintyre in the south-west to Caithness in the north-east, serving a population of 320,000 people. In 2016–17 it had an operating budget of £780 million. It provides prehospital care, primary and secondary care services. Organisational structure NHS Highland is composed of two Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs): * The Highland Health and Social Care partnership covers the local government area of Highland. It has two main divisions: ** The North and West operational unit covers Caithness, Sutherland, Lochaber and Skye, Lochalsh and Wester Ross. ** The Inner Moray Firth operating unit covers Raigmore Hospital, Badenoch and Strathspey, Mid Ross, Inverness and Nairn. * The Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership covers the local government area of Argyll and Bute. This includes the Cowal peninsula, which is closer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
