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NHS Scotland: Type: COVID-19 critical care: Services; Beds: 300 initially, up to 1000 as needed: ... NHS Louisa Jordan hosted COVID-19 vaccine clinics from 8 December ...
Health Protection Scotland (HPS) is the organisation that co-ordinates health protection in Scotland. It is part of Public Health Scotland. HPS took over the functions of the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH) in November 2004. [1] Other functions from National Services Scotland were also added. [2]
The National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) is a Scottish Government database accessible to public bodies approved by the Scottish Parliament.The register was established in the early 1950s to facilitate the transfer of patients between Health Board areas or across borders within the countries of the United Kingdom.
MRSA is responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It caused more than 100,000 deaths worldwide attributable to antimicrobial resistance in 2019. MRSA is any strain of S. aureus that has developed (through natural selection) or acquired (through horizontal gene transfer) a multiple drug resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics.
24 February – Audit Scotland warns that NHS Scotland faces major recruitment and retention problems as it recovers from the pandemic. [ 61 ] 25 February – The Scottish Government and NHS National Services Scotland are reprimanded by the UK's data watchdog over privacy failings in the NHS Scotland COVID Status app. [ 62 ]
Population Screening: Responsible for the oversight, quality assurance, and coordination at a national level of Scotland’s six population screening programmes. Legal : The Central Legal Office (CLO) provides specialist legal advice and assistance in most areas of law relevant to the public sector to NHSScotland.
NHS Scotland, sometimes styled NHSScotland, is the publicly–funded healthcare system in Scotland and one of the four systems that make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It operates 14 territorial NHS boards across Scotland, supported by seven special non-geographic health boards, and Public Health Scotland.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland is part of the COVID-19 pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019, caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Scotland on 1 March 2020. [1] Community transmission was first reported on 11 March 2020, and the first confirmed death was on 13 March 2020.