| NHS Borders | |
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| Type | NHS board |
| Established | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Borders General Hospital Melrose TD6 9BS [1] |
| Region served | Scottish Borders |
| Area size | 4,732 square kilometres |
| Population | 110,200 |
| Hospitals | |
| Staff | 2,627 (2018/19) [2] |
| Website | www |
NHS Borders is one of the fourteen health boards within NHS Scotland. It provides healthcare services for the Scottish Borders, the south east region of Scotland. NHS Borders is headquartered in Melrose.
In February 2015 it announced a review of its services. A petition against any move to shut hospital sites in Peebles, Duns, Hawick and Kelso gathered more than 4,000 signatures of support though no proposals to close any have yet appeared. [3]
The board's Pharmacy Team won the Hospital Pharmacy Team of the Year Award at the 2017 Scottish Pharmacist Awards. [4]
During the months of April - June 2021, NHS Borders outperformed the national average in their cancer waiting times, with almost 92% of urgent cancer suspicion referrals being seen within the Scottish Government's 62-day target and 100% of cancer patients beginning their treatment within the 31-day target. [5]
In August 2021, NHS Borders performance dipped to the lowest level for the adherence to the national A&E 4 hour timeframe for admission, transferral or discharge of patients, as it was recorded with a mere 67.7%, being below the national average. [6]
NHS Borders provides both acute and community care within the Scottish Borders, with the main acute site offer bed capacity for approximately 330 patients.
The Borders General Hospital is NHS Border's acute hospital, located in near Melrose in the Scottish Borders. Known locally as the "BGH", The Borders General Hospital offers a range of acute inpatient services, including a Departement for Medicine of the Elderly, pre/peri/post natal services and a Stroke Unit. [7] The BGH has a bed capacity of 328. A 24-hour Accident and Emergency Service is offered within the BGH.
Hawick Community Hospital offers a range of services to the Hawick Community. Within the hospital, there are 23 inpatient beds, for step down and rehabilitation care; a day unit, offering care for older patients with dementia and mental health conditions. [8] Hawick Community Hospital also offers a 24-hour Minor Injuries Unit.
Hay Lodge Hospital is located in the Border town of Peebles. The hospital has a 23 bedded inpatient unit, along with a 24-hour minor injuries unit, GP Treatment Rooms and consultant led clinics in a range of clinical specialties. [9]
Kelso Community Hospital in Kelso is a 23-bedded unit offering care to patients requiring rehabilitation, assessment and palliative care. Kelso Community Hospital also offers a 24-hour minor injuries unit. [10]
Knoll Hospital is located in the border town of Duns. The hospital has a 23 bedded inpatient unit, along with a 24-hour minor injuries unit, GP Treatment Rooms and consultant led clinics in a range of clinical specialties. [11]
The Cauldshiels Ward is a 14 bedded unit which cares for older adults with dementia who are acutely ill or have had crisis due to their condition. Cauldshiels is a community site, located within the grounds of the Borders General Hospital. [12]
Melburn Lodge is a 16 bedded unit providing care for dementia patients displaying symptoms of stress and distress. Melburn Lodge is a community site, located within the grounds of the Borders General Hospital. [13]
Former hospitals include Coldstream Cottage Hospital. [14]
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, formerly called St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, is based in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth, and serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling about 3.5 million people.
Fulbourn Hospital is a mental health facility located between the Cambridgeshire village of Fulbourn and the Cambridge city boundary at Cherry Hinton, about 5 miles (8 km) south-east of the city centre. It is managed by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. The Ida Darwin Hospital site is situated behind Fulbourn Hospital. It is run and managed by the same trust, with both hospitals sharing the same facilities and staff pool.
Stobhill Hospital is located in Springburn in the north of Glasgow, Scotland. It serves the population of North Glasgow and part of East Dunbartonshire. It is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Gartnavel Royal Hospital is a mental health facility based in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland. It provides inpatient psychiatric care for the population of the West of the City. It used to house the regional adolescent psychiatric unit but this has recently moved to a new psychiatric unit at Stobhill Hospital. The Hospital is a venue used by the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland. Some parts of the hospital are classified as a category A building and are also deemed at risk.
Borders General Hospital (BGH) is a district general hospital on the outskirts of Melrose, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Borders.
University of Missouri Health Care is an American academic health system located in Columbia, Missouri. It's owned by the University of Missouri System. University of Missouri Health System includes five hospitals: University Hospital, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, Missouri Orthopedic Institute and University of Missouri Women's and Children's Hospital — all of which are located in Columbia. It's affiliated with Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. It also includes more than 60 primary and specialty-care clinics and the University Physicians medical group.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway is an NHS board serving the Dumfries and Galloway region. It is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. NHS Dumfries and Galloway provides health care and promotes healthy living for the people of Dumfries and Galloway.
NHS Lothian is one of the 14 regions of NHS Scotland. It provides healthcare services in the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian council areas. Its headquarters are at Waverley Gate, Edinburgh
University Hospital Crosshouse, known locally as Crosshouse Hospital, is a large district general hospital situated outside the village of Crosshouse, two miles outside Kilmarnock town centre in Scotland. It provides services to the North Ayrshire and East Ayrshire areas and is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
Bed management is the allocation and provision of beds, especially in a hospital where beds in specialist wards are a scarce resource. The "bed" in this context represents not simply a place for the patient to sleep, but the services that go with being cared for by the medical facility: admission processing, physician time, nursing care, necessary diagnostic work, appropriate treatment, food, cleaning and so forth.
A community hospital can be purely a nominal designation or have a more specific meaning. When specific, it refers to a hospital that is accessible to the general public, and provides a general or specific medical care which is usually short-term, in a cost-effective setting, and also focuses on preventing illnesses and not only treating them. The word community often occurs in the name of the hospital. The word community is used in the sense of a location-based community for a community hospital. The following sections describe community hospitals when referred to in specific countries.
University Hospital Wishaw is a district general hospital in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, situated between the areas of Craigneuk to the north and Netherton to the south. The hospital, managed by NHS Lanarkshire, is 11 miles southeast of Glasgow.
Poole Hospital is an acute general hospital in Poole, Dorset, England. Built in 1907, it has expanded from a basic 14-bed facility into a 789-bed hospital. It is the trauma centre for east Dorset and provides specialist services such as cancer treatment for the entire county. It is managed by the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital was managed by Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust until the merger with The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2020.
Clatterbridge Health Park is a campus of otherwise independent, health care-related organisations, including three separate NHS trusts.
Callington Road Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Bristol, England. Opened in 2006, it primarily replaced Barrow Hospital, providing psychiatric inpatient and community services for Bristol and the surrounding region. It is run by the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) is a 1,677-bed acute hospital located in Govan, in the south-west of Glasgow, Scotland. The hospital is built on the site of the former Southern General Hospital and opened at the end of April 2015. The hospital comprises a 1,109-bed adult hospital, a 256-bed children's hospital and two major Emergency Departments; one for adults and one for children. There is also an Immediate Assessment Unit for local GPs and out-of-hours services, to send patients directly, without having to be processed through the Emergency Department.
Andover War Memorial Hospital is a community hospital in Andover, Hampshire. The hospital provides inpatient rehabilitation, day hospital services, a minor injury unit and an outpatient unit. It is operated by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, but some services are provided by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. The Countess of Brecknock Hospice is located on the same site as the hospital. The independent regulator of health and social care in England, the Care Quality Commission, rated Andover as "requires improvement" overall in 2018.
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The Gordon Hospital is a 55-bed acute adult mental health hospital located in Westminster, London. It is managed by the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
Woodland View is an acute mental health hospital, acute adult services and elderly and community rehabilitation facility located within the grounds of Ayrshire Central Hospital, Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The hospital was constructed by Balfour Beattie Construction, and opened in 2016.
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