NHS Fife

NHS Fife
TypeNHS board
Established2004
HeadquartersHayfield Road
Kirkcaldy
KY2 5AH[1]
Region servedFife
Hospitals
Staff7,683 (2018/19)[2]
Websitewww.nhsfife.org Edit this at Wikidata

NHS Fife is an NHS board which provides healthcare services in Fife, Scotland. It is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland.

Hospitals

The board runs two main hospitals:[3]

It also runs a number of community and day hospitals, including:

Finances

The board faces an overspend of up to £3.5 million for 2014/5. Financial pressures included the cost of medical locums and bank nurses to fill long-term vacancies in acute services and the impact of new drugs to treat Hepatitis C and Anti-TNF drugs for rheumatology.[4]

In 2019, it was reported that the NHS Fife estate needed £89 million of maintenance to bring the buildings up to acceptable standards, and that this cost had risen by £11.5 million in the last year, primarily due to further deterioration of the tower block at Victoria Hospital.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Contact Us". NHS Fife. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Consolidated Annual Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019" (PDF). NHS Fife. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Hospitals & Health Centres". NHS Fife. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  4. ^ "NHS Fife books end year in red". Fife Today. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  5. ^ Warrender, Claire. "NHS Fife buildings in need of almost £90m of maintenance work". The Courier. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
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