NHS Scotland

have chosen to investigate the NHS Scotland deficit. The NHS stands for the National Health Service, which provides healthcare for all UK citizens based on their need for healthcare rather than their ability to pay for it. It is funded by taxes. The NHS Scotland 15bn deficit needs to be addressed as the service is over-stretched, underfunded and many believe that it will have an negative impact on society if it was to collapse. It is my belief that the NHS Scotland budget has not kept in line with

Briefing Note on NHS Highland for New Staff Members National Health Service Highland (NHS Highland) is a public sector organisation and is classed as being in the Tertiary Sector as it provides a service to the public rather than producing a tangible product. NHS Highland serves a population of approximately 310,000 residents and provides a wide range of services across the largest land area (~40%) of any health authority in Scotland. NHS Highland is managed by a Board of Executive and Non-Executive

Within NHS Scotland, the Nurse Manager role is afforded an array of designations such as Clinical Nurse Manager, Head of Nursing, Lead Nurse, and Service Manager. The role is routinely referred to as a leadership and management role and is cited as within the echelons of middle management (NES 2014; The Scottish Government Workforce Directorate 2009). A concept analysis of the Nurse Manager role identified a significant absence of Scottish based literature. This leaves one to conjecture that the

hospital because of the unavailability of health or social care services in the community or because of administrative issues within hospitals. NHS cuts to continuing healthcare. This has led to disputes between NHS and social care professionals and shunted costs on to councils, who often have to fund care packages for people no longer fully funded by the NHS. The break-up of community mental health teams. In some areas of England councils have withdrawn social care staff from mental health teams

1.0 Introduction The National Health Service (NHS) was started in 1948 by Aneurin Bevan, the minister of health at the time. It was based on three core principles that still underpin the NHS today. It was set up to ensure that everyone could have access to healthcare, despite their financial circumstances (NHS 2013a). Although the NHS has achieved what it set out to do, it is now in major financial difficulty, with debt that could reach £1bn by the end of 2014 (Campbell 2014). Diseases that are

has major cost implications on the NHS. (National Osteoporosis Society, 2013a) The

Introduction NHS Health Scotland (hereafter, NHS) aims to provide high quality medical health care and treatment. Nevertheless, occasionally, a patient may suffer medical injury as a result of the medical practitioners conduct. In such circumstances the patient has the option to make a claim for financial compensation from the NHS for the consequential injury. In Scotland the fault-based compensation system (hereafter, fault-based system) operates to financially compensate patients for medical

• GREENER - Improve Scotland's natural and built environment and the sustainable use and enjoyment of it.” Scottish government (2007) It aims to work towards making Scotland Healthier. They want to improve the quality of health by following a targeted action plan. By tackling alcohol misuse, obesity and mental health issues the government hope to make a safer, happier and healthier future for Scotland’s children. After

Organisation responsibility to provide comprehensive services available to all aspires to the highest standards of excellence and professionalism. Duty to providing standards of quality and safety improve health outcome for patient (Pidegon (1997) states a culture exists whereby when a man-made disaster occurs this is followed by a cycle of disaster inquiries and subsequent new safety measures and regulations pattern is particularly evident in Health and Social services during the 1970s for example

board, that there is a spread of wealth within the different NHS hospitals and that one is not neglected. This is deffinately where their priorities should lie as they are trying to sell the image that the public hospitals have the right equipment and people. Performance measures for assessment of customer services The assessment of customer services is one that can be measured in a number of different ways. Firstly through the NHS ratings the length of time that someone has to wait in A&E