Made foundation 2004 (2004) Population 320,000 Phone +44 1463 717123 | Headquarters Inverness Type NHS board | |
Region served Highland
Argyll and Bute Area size 32,500 square kilometres (12,500 sq mi) Address Assynt House/Beechwood Pk, Inverness IV2 3BW, United Kingdom Hours Closed today SundayClosedMonday8AM–6PMTuesday8AM–6PMWednesday8AM–6PMThursday8AM–6PMFriday8AM–6PMSaturdayClosed Similar The Highland Council, Centre for Health Science, One Dental Practice, Inverness College UHI, Castle House Dental Pr Profiles | ||
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NHS Highland is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. Geographically, it is the largest Health Board, covering an area of 32,500 km² from Kintyre in the south-west to Caithness in the north-east, serving a population of 320,000 people. It directly employs over 10,500 people and there are also around 1,000 primary care staff in the region.
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Operational Units
NHS Highland is composed of one specialist services unit and four Community Health Partnerships:
History
On 1 October 2001 NHS Highland health board was established. NHS Highland's first board members were announced 10 days later
Reorganisations
On 1 April 2006, NHS Highland took over responsibility for part of the former NHS Argyll and Clyde region (corresponding approximately to the Argyll and Bute council area), the other part of which was transferred to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
In April 2012, NHS Highland became the lead agency responsible for Adult Social Care services in the area covered by the Highland Council.
In December 2014, Broadford was chosen as the site for a new hospital, after a consultation process. Some campaigners had hoped that the central hub of services could have been based at Portree Hospital, however the Scottish Health Council has pronounced the process followed by the board as legitimate.
Training Initiatives
In 2011 NHS Highland announced it would be running a week-long "boot camp" for junior surgeons at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.
Hospitals
NHS Highland is responsible for a number of different types of hospital- a large district general hospital, 3 rural general hospitals, a psychiatric hospital and a number of community hospitals