| NHS Tayside | |
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| Type | NHS board |
| Established | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Ninewells Hospital Dundee DD1 9SY[1] |
| Region served | |
| Population | 400,000 |
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| Staff | 14,000 |
| Website | www |
NHS Tayside is anNHS board which forms one of the fourteen regions ofNHS Scotland. It provides healthcare services inAngus, theDundee City council area andPerth and Kinross. NHS Tayside is headquartered atNinewells Hospital inDundee; one of the largest hospitals in the world.
It has threeHealth and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs): Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross.
In July 2020 the board announced that it had achieved theScottish Government’s 2024 target of a 90% reduction in prevalence ofhepatitis 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 withAlcidion to deploy Miya Observations, an electronic monitoring system which alerts clinical staff when patients show signs of deterioration, in 2022.[3]
NHS Tayside was originally formed as Tayside Health Board in April 1974.[4] It replaced theEastern 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 threeCommunity 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[update] 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.
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 SecretaryShona Robison said there were concerns about whether NHS Tayside could manage its own finances.[9]
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 theTayside area.[10][11] They also include records of defunct hospitals includingDundee Royal Infirmary,Maryfield Hospital andMurthly Hospital.[12]
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