NHS Tayside
TypeNHS board
Established2006
HeadquartersNinewells Hospital
Dundee
DD1 9SY[1]
Region served
Population400,000
Hospitals
Staff14,000
Websitewww.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk

NHS Tayside is an NHS board which forms one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. It provides healthcare services in Angus, the Dundee City council area and Perth and Kinross. NHS Tayside is headquartered at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee; one of the largest hospitals in the world.

It has three Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs): Angus, Dundee City 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 hepatitis C, after 1970 people were diagnosed and treated, making it the first region in the world to effectively eliminate the virus.[2]

It signed a five-year agreement with Alcidion to deploy Miya Observations, an electronic monitoring system which alerts clinical staff when patients show signs of deterioration, in 2022.[3]

History

NHS Tayside was originally formed as Tayside Health Board in April 1974.[4] It replaced the Eastern Regional Hospital Board, which itself had been created in July 1948 as a result of the creation of the National Health Service, as having the responsibility for managing hospital provision in Dundee, Angus and Perth and Kinross (the Eastern Regional Hospital Board had also had some responsibility for hospitals in north and east Fife).[5][6] 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.[7]

It was organised into three Community Health Partnerships (CHPs): Angus, Dundee and Perth, which were replaced by health and social Care Partnerships that became fully operational in April 2016.[8]

As of 2017 it is responsible for the governance of 3 major hospitals, several community hospitals and over 60 GP surgeries and other health centres.[4] 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 its own finances. [9]

Archives

The archives of NHS Tayside and its predecessors are held by Archive Services, University of Dundee. The archives include many records relating to many of the former and current hospitals located in the Tayside area.[10][11] They also include records of defunct hospitals including Dundee Royal Infirmary, Maryfield Hospital and Murthly Hospital.[12]

Hospitals

Angus

Dundee City council area

Perth and Kinross

Within Perth

Outwith Perth

References

  1. ↑ "Contact Us". NHS Tayside. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  2. ↑ "NHS Tayside first region in the world to eliminate hepatitis C". Dundee University. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  3. ↑ "NHS Tayside signs up to early warning system". Building Better Healthcare. 24 March 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  4. 1 2 "About Us". NHS Tayside. HHS Tayside. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Collection THB 18 - Eastern Regional Hospital Board". Archive Services Online Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  6. ↑ "THB 19 Tayside Health Board". Archive Services Online Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "THB 11 Dundee Mental Hospitals (Board of Management)". Archive Services Online Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  8. ↑ "What you need to know about Health and Social Care Partnership". www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk. NHS Tayside. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  9. ↑ Crisis-hit NHS Tayside chiefs replaced, BBC News, 6 April 2018
  10. ↑ "University of Dundee Archives Services Online Catalogue". University of Dundee. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  11. ↑ "University of Dundee Archives Services the Collections". University of Dundee. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  12. ↑ "Collection Summaries". Unlocking the Medicine Chest. University of Dundee. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
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