NHS Orkney
TypeNHS board
Established1 April 2004 (2004-04-01)
HeadquartersKirkwall, Orkney, Scotland[1]
Region servedOrkney
HospitalsBalfour Hospital
Staff672 (2020/21)[2]
Websitewww.ohb.scot.nhs.uk

NHS Orkney is an NHS board that provides healthcare services in the Orkney area of Scotland.[3]

Services

It operates one hospital, Balfour Hospital, in Kirkwall.

As of 2016 NHS Orkney has 24 General Practitioners (GPs) who work across 6 practices.[4]

History

In 2005 NHS Orkney found it impossible to attract GPs for remote island, surgeries although offering a generous remuneration package.[5]

In 2007, John Ross Scott, a former Liberal Democrat leader of the Scottish Borders Council became chair of the board.[6]

In 2009 the board published their own vision for how healthcare services across the Islands could be redesigned, in order to become more sustainable.[7]

In 2011 the board took the decision to use tablet computers to reduce the printing costs associated with their meetings.[8] In February 2020, NHS Orkney owned 700 tablet/computers for staff members’ use in their jobs.[9]

Ian Kinniburgh, the chair of NHS Shetland, took up the post of chair of NHS Orkney on 1 December 2015.[10]

Meghan McEwen, who had been a non-executive board member since 2018, was appointed as chairwoman of NHS Orkney in February 2020.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "About us". NHS Orkney. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS For Year Ended 31 March 2021" (PDF). NHS Orkney. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  3. ↑ "Health and social care in Orkney". Orkney.com. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "General Practices (GPs)". NHS Orkney. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  5. ↑ Lister, David. "Orkney hunts for doctors". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "JR Scott heralds return to politics with the SNP". Southern Reporter. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Our Orkney, Our Health - Transforming Clinical Services" (PDF). NHS Orkney. 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "NHS Orkney cuts out paper in favour of iPads". BBC News. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  9. ↑ "RE: Freedom of Information Request 201920" (PDF). Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  10. ↑ "New post for Kinniburgh". www.shetnews.co.uk. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  11. ↑ "New NHSO chairwoman appointed". The Orcadian Online. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2021.


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