Helen Puttickhealth correspondent
NHS Forth Valley provides and manages a wide range of health services including hospitals and General Practice with the Forth Valley area of Central Scotland.
To understand challenges and opportunities for service development for Hospital at Home (HaH) through interviews with multidisciplinary staff across three services in Scotland.#Four themes emerged: raising referral awareness, service design and efficiency, staff security on home visits and sustainability.#...
In 1843 a committee was established to promote the erection of a lunatic asylum at Inverness for the Northern Counties and in 1845 the movement gained Royal favour and would have produced the eighth Royal Asylum in Scotland. £4,500 was raised but this was not sufficient to build and endow...
2. Chiefly British A charitable institution, such as an orphanage or a home for the elderly. 3. A repair shop for specified items: a doll hospital. 4. Archaic A hospice for travelers or pilgrims. [Middle English, hospice, from Old French ospital, from Medieval Latin hospitāle, from neut...
Extract from the 1934 OS map. Reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland The smallpox hospital was at Millbrook Marsh, an inhospitable looking place even as late as the 1930s, surrounded by mud and marsh. It is interesting to see that development of the estuary was just be...
The hospital load measure was defined as the number of COVID-19 admissions at an NHS trust within the 7 days around admission (3 before, same day, and 3 after), as a proportion of the busiest 7-day period at that trust. Hospital load was grouped into: 0–20%, 20–40%, 40–60%...
Hospital Education and Home Tuition Service Hospital Education Program Hospital Educational Service Officer Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration Hospital Emergency Administrative Radio Hospital Emergency Amateur Radio Service Hospital Emergency Ambulance Radio ...
Client:NHS Scotland Architect:Graeme Massey Architects Structural Engineer:SF Structures Main Contractor:DJ Sparham Ltd Concrete Contractor:DJ Sparham Ltd Photos:Russell Beard Date of completion:2018 This concrete pavilion was commissioned as part of an arts strategy for the new Acute Mental ...
NHS National Services Scotland. HAI compendium: guidance and resources. 2023. Accessed May 12, 2023. https://www.nss.nhs.scot/antimicrobial-resistance-and-healthcare-associated-infection/community-infection-prevention-and-control/hai-compendium/. Google Scholar 20 Otter J. Environmental decontamination ...