NHS Ayrshire and Arran is one of the fourteen regions of

NHS Scotland 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, ...

. It was formed on 1 April 2004. It has a responsibility to provide health and social care to almost 400,000 people with an operating budget of around £700 million (for 2013–2014), and planned budgets of £720 (for 2019-2020), £762.4 million (for 2020-2021) and £774.5 million (for 2021-2022).

Services

The health board has almost 6,000 staff working in their hospitals, and almost 2,500 staff working in the community. It is also responsible for the care provided by: * 300 general practitioners and their teams at 90 sites * 98 community pharmacies * 160

dentist A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry (the diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the mouth, oral cavity and other aspects of the craniofaci ...

s at more than 70 sites * 60 ophthalmic practices

Hospitals

List of hospitals in Scotland The following is a partial list of currently operating hospitals in Scotland. NHS hospitals in Scotland Organised by NHS board areas, see NHS National Services Scotland and Subdivisions of Scotland. Ayrshire and Arran East Ayrshire, North ...

(NHS Ayrshire and Arran section)

East Ayrshire area

East Ayrshire Community Hospital East Ayrshire Community Hospital is a community hospital located in Ayr Road, Cumnock, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. History The hospital was commissioned to replace Ballochmyle Hospital. It was procured under a Private Fin ...

Cumnock Cumnock (Scottish Gaelic: ''Cumnag'') is a town and former civil parish located in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The town sits at the confluence of the Glaisnock Water and the Lugar Water. There are three neighbouring housing projects which lie just o ...

* Kirklandside Hospital,

Hurlford Hurlford (Scottish Gaelic: ''Baile Àtha Cliath'') is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 4,968. Hurlford's former names include Whirlford and Hurdleford. The village was named Whirlford as a result of a ford crossing ...

University Hospital Crosshouse University Hospital Crosshouse, known locally as Crosshouse Hospital or simply Crosshouse is a large district general hospital at Crosshouse near Kilmarnock, Scotland. It provides services to the North Ayrshire and East Ayrshire areas and is man ...

Crosshouse Crosshouse is a village in East Ayrshire about west of Kilmarnock. It grew around the cross-roads of the main Kilmarnock to Irvine road, once classified as the A71 but now reduced in status to the B7081, with a secondary road (the B751) running ...

Kilmarnock Kilmarnock (, sco, Kilmaurnock; gd, Cill Mheàrnaig (IPA: ʰʲɪʎˈveaːɾnəkʲ, "Marnock's church") is a large town and former burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland and is the administrative centre of East Ayrshire, East Ayrshire Council. ...

North Ayrshire area

Arran War Memorial Hospital The Arran War Memorial Hospital is a healthcare facility located in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. It has seventeen staffed beds for in-patient medical care, x-ray facilities, and is the base for a community maternity unit. It is manage ...

, Lamlash,

Isle of Arran The Isle of Arran (; sco, Isle o Arran; gd, Eilean Arainn) or simply Arran is an island off the west coast of Scotland. It is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh-largest Scottish island, at . Historically part of Butesh ...

Ayrshire Central Hospital Ayrshire Central Hospital, also known as Irvine Central Hospital, is an NHS hospital in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. History Formation The hospital is constructed on land which was formerly part of ...

, Irvine *

Brooksby House Hospital Brooksby House Hospital is a community hospital in the North Ayrshire region in Scotland. It is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. It is a Category A listed building. History The house was designed by David Hamilton and built as a yachting re ...

Largs Largs ( gd, An Leargaidh Ghallda) is a town on the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland, about from Glasgow. The original name means "the slopes" (''An Leargaidh'') in Scottish Gaelic. A popular seaside resort with a pier, the town mark ...

Lady Margaret Hospital Lady Margaret Hospital is a small 10-bedded hospital at Millport on Great Cumbrae in North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. History The foundation stone for the new "Millport Infectious Diseases Hospital" was laid ...

, Millport,

Isle of Cumbrae Great Cumbrae ( sco, Muckle Cumbrae; gd, Cumaradh Mòr; also known as Great Cumbrae Island, Cumbrae or the Isle of Cumbrae) is the larger of the two islands known as The Cumbraes in the lower Firth of Clyde in western Scotland. The island is s ...

Woodland View 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 B ...

, Irvine

South Ayrshire area

Ailsa Hospital Ailsa Hospital is a mental health facility located in the southeastern outskirts of Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. History In 1864, the Dundee-based architectural practice Edward and Robertson won the c ...

Ayr Ayr (; sco, Ayr; gd, Inbhir Àir, "Mouth of the River Ayr") is a town situated on the southwest coast of Scotland. It is the administrative centre of the South Ayrshire Subdivisions of Scotland, council area and the historic Shires of Scotlan ...

Biggart Hospital Biggart Hospital is a community hospital in Prestwick, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. History The hospital was originally established by Robert Biggart and his wife as a holiday home for crippled children. It was designed by ...

Prestwick Prestwick ( gd, Preastabhaig) is a town in South Ayrshire on the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland about southwest of Glasgow. It adjoins the larger town of Ayr to the south on the Firth of Clyde coast, the centre of which is about south, an ...

Girvan Community Hospital Girvan Community Hospital is a health facility in Girvan, South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. History The facility was commissioned to replace the aging Davidson Hospital. The building, which was designed by Au ...

Girvan Girvan ( gd, Inbhir Gharbhain, "mouth of the River Girvan") is a burgh and harbour town in Carrick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Girvan is situated on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde, with a population of about 6,450. It lies south of Ayr, ...

University Hospital Ayr University Hospital Ayr is a general hospital on the outskirts of Ayr, Scotland. It covers a catchment area of approximately 100,000 people in South Ayrshire and is managed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. History The hospital, which replaced the A ...

Emergency Departments (ED)

Only three hospitals within the NHS Ayrshire and Arran have a designated

emergency department An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of pati ...

(ED), previously known as Accident and Emergency (A&E).

has a large department which was opened in the early 2000s. The Emergency Department at

was marked for closure, with the emergency department proposed to move from Ayr to University Hospital Crosshouse. This plan was eventually abolished, and University Hospital Ayr continues to have an emergency department, as does the

on the

. Under the Scottish Government’s Mental Health Strategy 2017-2027 a new National Secure Adolescent Inpatient Service has been approved and is expected to open in 2022. It will be named Foxgrove and will be located at Ayrshire Central Hospital Campus in Irvine.

Performance

In May 2015 only 88% of patients attending the Boards A&E departments were seen within the four-hour target. This was the worst performance of all the Scottish health boards. The

Health and Social Care Partnership Health and Social Care Partnerships, (HSCPs) are organisations formed to integrate services provided by Health Boards and Councils in Scotland. Each partnership is jointly run by the NHS and local authority. There are 31 HSCPs across Scotland. The ...

in Ayrshire and Arran established three community wards to manage high-risk patients with heart problems and diabetes in 2016. This reduced emergency hospital admissions by 40% in the first six months of operation. Nicola McIvor, catering production & services manager, was awarded Caterer of the Year in April 2017 at the annual

Hospital Caterers Association The Hospital Caterers Association is an industry body in the United Kingdom for people and organisations involved in NHS Healthcare Catering Management established in 1948 It runs an annual award ceremony. It set up an annual Nutrition and Hydrat ...

awards. The production and services department won the Staff, Health and Wellbeing award.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Ayrshire Isle of Arran 2004 establishments in Scotland Health in Ayrshire