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Nhs orkney annual review 2014
NHS Orkney is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. It provides healthcare services in the Orkney area. NHS Orkney is headquartered in Garden House Kirkwall.
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Nhs orkney annual review 2013
Services
It operates one hospital, Balfour Hospital, in Kirkwall.
As of 2016 NHS Orkney has 24 General Practitioners (GPs) who work across 6 Practices.
History
In 2007, John Ross Scott, a former Liberal Democrat leader of the Scottish Borders Council became chair of the board.
In 2009 the board published their own vision for how healthcare services across the Islands could be redesigned, in order to become more sustainable.
In 2011 the board took the decision to use tablet computers to reduce the printing costs associated with their meetings.
Ian Kinniburgh, the chair of NHS Shetland, took up the post of chair of NHS Orkney on 1 December 2015.