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NHS Fife

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NHS Fife
TypeNHS board
Established2004
HeadquartersHayfield Road
Kirkcaldy
KY2 5AH[1]
Region servedFife
Hospitals
Staff7,683 (2018/19)[2]
Websitewww.nhsfife.org Edit this at Wikidata

NHS Fife is an NHS board which provides healthcare services in Fife, Scotland. It is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland.

Hospitals

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The board runs two main hospitals:[3]

It also runs a number of community and day hospitals, including:

Finances

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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.[4]

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.[5]

References

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  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. ^ "Hospitals & Health Centres". NHS Fife. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  4. ^ "NHS Fife books end year in red". Fife Today. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  5. ^ Warrender, Claire. "NHS Fife buildings in need of almost £90m of maintenance work". The Courier. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
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