NHS Fife

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NHS Fife
Type NHS board
Established2004
HeadquartersHayfield Road
Kirkcaldy
KY2 5AH [1]
Region served Fife
Hospitals
Staff7,683 (2018/19) [2]
Website www.nhsfife.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

NHS Fife (NHS Fife University Health Board, as of July 2025) [3] is an NHS board which provides healthcare services in Fife, Scotland. It is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland.

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Hospitals

Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, the site of the only A&E department in Fife Roundabout at Victoria Hospital - geograph.org.uk - 7350469.jpg
Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, the site of the only A&E department in Fife

The board runs two main hospitals: [4]

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. [5]

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. [6]

Controversies

Peggie v NHS Fife

In 2024, NHS Fife suspended a nurse following an altercation at the Victoria Hospital in which the nurse in question supposedly made comments about a transgender doctor's use of the female changing facilities. [7] The nurse is currently pursuing NHS Fife under the Equality Act 2010. The tribunal, as of June 2025, has cost around £259,000 which NHS Fife is liable to pay £25,000 of. [7] [8] (main article)

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. "NHS Fife University Health Board | NHS Fife". Archived from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  4. "Hospitals & Health Centres". NHS Fife. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  5. "NHS Fife books end year in red". Fife Today. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  6. Warrender, Claire. "NHS Fife buildings in need of almost £90m of maintenance work". The Courier. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  7. 1 2 "Lawyers for nurse in trans case criticise 'irresponsible' health board". BBC News. 18 July 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
  8. "Nurse confronted trans doctor in 'unacceptable' manner, tribunal hears - BBC News". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2025.