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NHS Grampian
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NHS Grampian is one of the fourteen regional health boards of NHS Scotland. NHS Grampian is responsible for providing health and social services to a population of over 500,000 people living in Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire. NHS Grampian employ around 17,000 staff to deliver services, NHS Grampian is also very closely linked with both the University of Aberdeen and The Robert Gordon University, especially in the fields of research, workforce planning and training. The health board was formed on 1 April 2004 by the amalgamation of Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust, Grampian Primary Care NHS Trust, the health boards headquarters are located at Summerfield House in the Summerhill area of Aberdeen. NHS Grampian consists of services, corporate services and three Community Health Partnerships and works closely with the local authorities. Chief executive Richard Carey announced he was to early retirement in November 2014. Medical director Roelf Dijkhuizen retired, as intended, in autumn 2014. The board chairman Bill Howatson stepped down at around the same time, a small number of clinicians called on other executives to consider their positions. In 2007 the board stated their ambition to deliver care in local communities wherever possible, to achieve this the preferred choice would be to treat patients in primary or community settings. The health board is served by 89 GP Practices There are various other specialist care teams work in community settings. There are 17 community hospitals across Grampian where care is provided including an urban facility, the Aberdeen Community Health and Care Village. Of all the boards in Scotland, Grampian has the highest concentration of community hospitals. There are 9 specialist acute hospitals in the NHS Grampian region, Royal Aberdeen Childrens Hospital and Aberdeen Maternity Hospital are also located at Foresterhill. Dr Grays Hospital is located in Elgin, Moray and is the district hospital for that area. Also located in Elgin is The Oaks, a palliative care day hospital, about 3% of the hospital activity in Grampian is providing treatment for people who live outwith the Grampian area. Between April 2014 and February 2015 the board paid out almost £3 million to private hospitals for the treatment of more than 1000 patients in order to meet waiting time targets, official website NHS Grampian on NHS Scotland website
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Foresterhill
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Foresterhill is an area in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the site of the main hospitals, as well as the medical school. It is the largest hospital complex in Europe, foresterhill is situated at the highest point in the city, a site identified by Professor Matthew Hay in 1900. He had the vision of a medical campus, with a combined hospital and medical school for the City of Aberdeen
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Aberdeen
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Nicknames include the Granite City, the Grey City and the Silver City with the Golden Sands. During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeens buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the Oil Capital of the World or the Energy Capital of the World. The area around Aberdeen has been settled since at least 8,000 years ago, the city has a long, sandy coastline and a marine climate, the latter resulting in chilly summers and mild winters. Aberdeen received Royal Burgh status from David I of Scotland, transforming the city economically, the traditional industries of fishing, paper-making, shipbuilding, and textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeens seaport. Aberdeen Heliport is one of the busiest commercial heliports in the world, in 2015, Mercer named Aberdeen the 57th most liveable city in the world, as well as the fourth most liveable city in Britain. In 2012, HSBC named Aberdeen as a business hub and one of eight super cities spearheading the UKs economy. The Aberdeen area has seen human settlement for at least 8,000 years. The city began as two separate burghs, Old Aberdeen at the mouth of the river Don, and New Aberdeen, a fishing and trading settlement, the earliest charter was granted by William the Lion in 1179 and confirmed the corporate rights granted by David I. In 1319, the Great Charter of Robert the Bruce transformed Aberdeen into a property-owning, granted with it was the nearby Forest of Stocket, whose income formed the basis for the citys Common Good Fund which still benefits Aberdonians. The city was burned by Edward III of England in 1336, but was rebuilt and extended, the city was strongly fortified to prevent attacks by neighbouring lords, but the gates were removed by 1770. During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of 1644–1647 the city was plundered by both sides, in 1644, it was taken and ransacked by Royalist troops after the Battle of Aberdeen and two years later it was stormed by a Royalist force under the command of Marquis of Huntly. In 1647 an outbreak of plague killed a quarter of the population. In the 18th century, a new Town Hall was built and the first social services appeared with the Infirmary at Woolmanhill in 1742 and the Lunatic Asylum in 1779. The council began major road improvements at the end of the 18th century with the main thoroughfares of George Street, King Street, gas street lighting arrived in 1824 and an enhanced water supply appeared in 1830 when water was pumped from the Dee to a reservoir in Union Place. An underground sewer system replaced open sewers in 1865, the city was incorporated in 1891. Although Old Aberdeen has a history and still holds its ancient charter. It is an part of the city, as is Woodside. Old Aberdeen is the location of Aberdon, the first settlement of Aberdeen
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Health system
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There is a wide variety of health systems around the world, with as many histories and organizational structures as there are nations. In some countries, health system planning is distributed among market participants, however, health care planning has been described as often evolutionary rather than revolutionary. According to WHO, healthcare systems goals are good health for the citizens, responsiveness to the expectations of the population, progress towards them depends on how systems carry out four vital functions, provision of health care services, resource generation, financing, and stewardship. Other dimensions for the evaluation of systems include quality, efficiency, acceptability. They have also described in the United States as the five Cs, Cost, Coverage, Consistency, Complexity. Also, continuity of care is a major goal. Often health system has been defined with a reductionist perspective, for reducing it to healthcare system. In many publications, for example, both expressions are used interchangeably, the World Health Organization defines health systems as follows, A health system consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health. This includes efforts to influence determinants of health as well as more direct health-improving activities, a health system is therefore more than the pyramid of publicly owned facilities that deliver personal health services. It includes inter-sectoral action by staff, for example, encouraging the ministry of education to promote female education. Healthcare providers are institutions or individuals providing healthcare services and they may also work outside of direct patient care such as in a government health department or other agency, medical laboratory, or health training institution. One study based on data from the OECD concluded that all types of health care finance are compatible with an efficient health system, the study also found no relationship between financing and cost control. The term health insurance is used to describe a form of insurance that pays for medical expenses. It is sometimes used broadly to include insurance covering disability or long-term nursing or custodial care needs. It may be provided through an insurance program, or from private insurance companies. It may be obtained on a basis or purchased by individual consumers. In each case premiums or taxes protect the insured from high or unexpected health care expenses, the benefit is typically administered by a government agency, a non-profit health fund or a corporation operating seeking to make a profit. Many government schemes also have co-payment schemes but exclusions are rare because of political pressure, the larger insurance schemes may also negotiate fees with providers
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NHS Scotland
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NHS Scotland, sometimes styled NHSScotland is the publicly funded healthcare system in Scotland. Health and social policy and funding are the responsibility of the Health. Scotlands NHS was established in 1948, the current Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport is Shona Robison and the head of staff is the Director-General Health and Social Care and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland, Paul Gray. NHS Scotland had an budget of £12.2 billion in 2015–16. Health and social care are devolved issues in the United Kingdom, the NHS in Scotland was created as an administratively separate organisation in 1948 under the ministerial oversight of the Scottish Office, before being politically devolved in 1999. This separation of powers and financing is not always apparent to the public due to the co-ordination and co-operation where cross-border emergency care is involved. Descriptions of staff numbers can be expressed as headcount and by Whole-Time Equivalent which is an estimate that helps to account of full. Dentists around 4,000 pharmacists, mostly working in community pharmacy positions, opticians allied health professionals administrators, clerical and domestic staff. The NHS in Scotland was formed on 5 July 1948, the service was founded by the National Health Service Act 1947. Prior to the creation of Scotlands NHS in 1948, the state was involved with the provision of healthcare, though it was not universal. Half of Scotland’s landmass was covered by the Highlands and Islands Medical Service, a state-funded health system run directly from Edinburgh. In addition, there had been a substantial state-funded hospital building programme during the war years, current provision of healthcare is the responsibility of 14 geographically based local NHS Boards and 7 National Special Health Boards. Proposals for the establishment of 15 NHS Boards were announced by the Scottish Executive Health Department in December 2000, further details about the role and function of the unified NHS health boards were provided in May 2001. In April 2004, Scotlands health care became an integrated service under the management of NHS Boards. Local authority nominees were added to Board membership to improve co-ordination of health, the remaining 16 Trusts were dissolved from 1 April 2004. Hospitals are now managed by the division of the NHS Board. By April 2014, there were new joint working arrangements in place between the NHS boards and Local Authorities came into effect that included responsibility for social care. There new organisations, which took over from CHPs are called Health, in January 2008, the Scottish Government announced plans for legislation to bring in direct elections as a way to select people for non-executive positions on Health Boards
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Hospital
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A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and nursing staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire. A district hospital typically is the health care facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care. Specialised hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals, a teaching hospital combines assistance to people with teaching to medical students and nurses. The medical facility smaller than a hospital is called a clinic. Hospitals have a range of departments and specialist units such as cardiology, some hospitals have outpatient departments and some have chronic treatment units. Common support units include a pharmacy, pathology, and radiology, Hospitals are usually funded by the public sector, by health organisations, by health insurance companies, or by charities, including direct charitable donations. Historically, hospitals were founded and funded by religious orders, or by charitable individuals. During the Middle Ages, hospitals served different functions from modern institutions, Middle Ages hospitals were almshouses for the poor, hostels for pilgrims, or hospital schools. The word hospital comes from the Latin hospes, signifying a stranger or foreigner, another noun derived from this, hospitium came to signify hospitality, that is the relation between guest and shelterer, hospitality, friendliness, and hospitable reception. By metonymy the Latin word then came to mean a guest-chamber, guests lodging, hospes is thus the root for the English words host hospitality, hospice, hostel and hotel. The German word Spital shares similar roots, the grammar of the word differs slightly depending on the dialect. Some patients go to a hospital just for diagnosis, treatment, or therapy and then leave without staying overnight, while others are admitted and stay overnight or for several days or weeks or months. Hospitals usually are distinguished from other types of facilities by their ability to admit and care for inpatients whilst the others. Larger cities may have several hospitals of varying sizes and facilities, some hospitals, especially in the United States and Canada, have their own ambulance service. A district hospital typically is the health care facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care. In California, district hospital refers specifically to a class of healthcare facility created shortly after World War II to address a shortage of beds in many local communities. Twenty-eight of Californias rural hospitals and 20 of its critical-access hospitals are District hospitals, Californias District hospitals are formed by local municipalities, have Boards that are individually elected by their local communities, and exist to serve local needs
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University
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A university is an institution of higher education and research which grants academic degrees in various academic disciplines. Universities typically provide undergraduate education and postgraduate education, the word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means community of teachers and scholars. Universities were created in Italy and evolved from Cathedral schools for the clergy during the High Middle Ages, the original Latin word universitas refers in general to a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc. Like other guilds, they were self-regulating and determined the qualifications of their members, an important idea in the definition of a university is the notion of academic freedom. The first documentary evidence of this comes from early in the life of the first university, the University of Bologna adopted an academic charter, the Constitutio Habita, in 1158 or 1155, which guaranteed the right of a traveling scholar to unhindered passage in the interests of education. Today this is claimed as the origin of academic freedom and this is now widely recognised internationally - on 18 September 1988,430 university rectors signed the Magna Charta Universitatum, marking the 900th anniversary of Bolognas foundation. The number of universities signing the Magna Charta Universitatum continues to grow, the university is generally regarded as a formal institution that has its origin in the Medieval Christian setting. The earliest universities were developed under the aegis of the Latin Church by papal bull as studia generalia and it is possible, however, that the development of cathedral schools into universities was quite rare, with the University of Paris being an exception. Later they were founded by Kings or municipal administrations. In the early period, most new universities were founded from pre-existing schools. Many historians state that universities and cathedral schools were a continuation of the interest in learning promoted by monasteries, the first universities in Europe with a form of corporate/guild structure were the University of Bologna, the University of Paris, and the University of Oxford. The students had all the power … and dominated the masters, princes and leaders of city governments perceived the potential benefits of having a scholarly expertise develop with the ability to address difficult problems and achieve desired ends. The emergence of humanism was essential to understanding of the possible utility of universities as well as the revival of interest in knowledge gained from ancient Greek texts. The rediscovery of Aristotles works–more than 3000 pages of it would eventually be translated–fuelled a spirit of inquiry into natural processes that had begun to emerge in the 12th century. Some scholars believe that these represented one of the most important document discoveries in Western intellectual history. Richard Dales, for instance, calls the discovery of Aristotles works a turning point in the history of Western thought and this became the primary mission of lecturers, and the expectation of students. The university culture developed differently in northern Europe than it did in the south, Latin was the language of the university, used for all texts, lectures, disputations and examinations. Professors lectured on the books of Aristotle for logic, natural philosophy, and metaphysics, while Hippocrates, Galen, outside of these commonalities, great differences separated north and south, primarily in subject matter
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University of Aberdeen
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The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. The university as it is today was formed in 1860 by a merger between Kings College and Marischal College, a university founded in 1593 as a Protestant alternative to the former. Today, Aberdeen is consistently ranked among the top 200 universities in the world and is one of two universities in the city, the other being the Robert Gordon University. The universitys iconic buildings act as symbols of wider Aberdeen, particularly Marischal College in the city centre, there are two campuses, the predominantly utilised Kings College campus dominates the section of the city known as Old Aberdeen, which is approximately two miles north of the city centre. Although the original site of the foundation, most academic buildings were constructed in the 20th century during a period of significant expansion. The universitys Foresterhill campus is next to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and houses the School of Medicine, Aberdeen has approximately 13,500 students from undergraduate to doctoral level, including many international students. An abundant range of disciplines are taught at the university, with 650 undergraduate degree offered in the 2012-13 academic year. Five Nobel laureates have since associated with Aberdeen. The first principal was Hector Boece, graduate and professor of the University of Paris, despite this founding date, teaching did not start for another ten years, and the University of Aberdeen celebrated 500 years of teaching and learning in 2005. Following the Scottish Reformation in 1560, Kings College was purged of its Roman Catholic staff, George Keith, the fifth Earl Marischal was a moderniser within the college and supportive of the reforming ideas of Peter Ramus. In April 1593 he founded a university in the city. It is also possible the founding of another college in nearby Fraserburgh by Sir Alexander Fraser, Aberdeen was highly unusual at this time for having two universities in one city, as 20th-century University prospectuses observed, Aberdeen had the same number as existed in England at the time. In addition, a university was set up to the north of Aberdeen in Fraserburgh from 1595. Initially, Marischal College offered the Principal of Kings College a role in selecting its academics, Marischal College, in the commercial heart of the city, was quite different in nature and outlook. For example, it was integrated into the life of the city. The two rival colleges often clashed, sometimes in court, but also in brawls between students on the streets of Aberdeen, as the institutions put aside their differences, a process of attempted mergers began in the 17th century. During this time, both colleges made notable contributions to the Scottish Enlightenment. Both colleges supported the Jacobite rebellion and following the defeat of the 1715 rising were largely purged by the authorities of their academics and officials
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Robert Gordon University
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Robert Gordon University, commonly referred to as RGU, is a public university in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is one of two universities in the city and it was shortlisted for Sunday Times University of the Year 2012 and was named Best Modern University in the UK for 2012 by The Sunday Times University Guide. The university awards degrees in a range of disciplines from BA/BSc to PhD, primarily in professional, technical and artistic disciplines. A number of academic degree programmes are also offered, such as in the social sciences. In addition, the academic and research staff produce world-class research in a number of areas. RGU is a university and its single campus in Aberdeen is at Garthdee. The university also operates an Administration Building in Aberdeen city centre, until summer 2013 a second campus was also located here and at St. Andrew Street nearby, but this campus has now closed apart from the Administration Building, which is to be retained. Academic departments located there have moved to new buildings at the main Garthdee campus, finally, it became a university in 1992. Unlike some modern universities in the UK which were created following the government reforms of 1992, Robert Gordon was a Scottish merchant, who had grown up in Aberdeen and graduated from Marischal College. Following a successful career, mostly in Danzig where he amassed a fortune, in the last decade of his life, he prepared plans for a Hospital similar to that founded in Edinburgh by George Heriot. The purpose of Robert Gordon’s Hospital was “the Maintenance, Aliment, Entertainment and Education of young boys parents are poor and indigent… and to put them to Trades. Gordon died in 1731, and left his fortune to the project. However, it nearly two decades for buildings to be completed, with the first boys admitted in 1750. The aim was not an education, but to provide the poor with a reasonable start in life. Boys were taken in between 8 and 11 years old and received food, accommodation and a basic education including English, Latin, writing and they left the Hospital between 14 and 16 years old as an apprentice in a trade or to a merchant. The Hospital expanded through the 18th and 19th centuries, the Aberdeen Mechanic’s Institution opened in 1824 providing evening classes in subjects such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, book-keeping, maritime navigation and art. By 1855 it was receiving government funding as the School of Science and Art, government education reforms in the 1870s saw the “Hospital” system fall out of favour and encouraged mergers with other educational establishments. As part of reforms, the Aberdeen Mechanic’s Institute and Technical School merged with Robert Gordon’s Hospital in 1881
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Emergency department
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The emergency department is usually found in a hospital or other primary care center. In some countries, emergency departments have become important entry points for those without means of access to medical care. The emergency departments of most hospitals operate 24 hours a day, griswold also equipped police and fire vehicles with medical supplies and trained officers to give emergency care while en route to the hospital. Today, a hospital has its emergency department in its own section of the ground floor of the grounds. As patients can present at any time and with any complaint, triage is normally the first stage the patient passes through, and consists of a brief assessment, including a set of vital signs, and the assignment of a chief complaint. Most emergency departments have an area for this process to take place. Most patients will be assessed at triage and then passed to another area of the department, or another area of the hospital. Conversely, patients with serious conditions, such as cardiac arrest, will bypass triage altogether. The resuscitation area, commonly referred to as Trauma or Resus, is a key area in most departments, the most seriously ill or injured patients will be dealt with in this area, as it contains the equipment and staff required for dealing with immediately life-threatening illnesses and injuries. Typical resuscitation staffing involves at least one attending physician, and at least one and these personnel may be assigned to the resuscitation area for the entirety of the shift, or may be on call for resuscitation coverage. Examples of majors include chest pain, difficulty breathing, abdominal pain, Advanced diagnostic testing may be conducted at this stage, including laboratory testing of blood and/or urine, ultrasonography, CT or MRI scanning. Medications appropriate to manage the condition will also be given. Depending on underlying causes of the chief complaint, he or she may be discharged home from this area or admitted to the hospital for further treatment. Patients whose condition is not immediately life-threatening will be sent to an area suitable to deal with them, such patients may still have been found to have significant problems, including fractures, dislocations, and lacerations requiring suturing. Children can present particular challenges in treatment, many hospitals have a separate area for evaluation of psychiatric problems. These are often staffed by psychiatrists and mental health nurses and social workers, there is typically at least one room for people who are actively a risk to themselves or others. Fast decisions on life-and-death cases are critical in emergency rooms. As a result, doctors face great pressures to overtest and overtreat, other common variations include emergency ward, emergency centre or emergency unit
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Health care
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It includes the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health. Access to healthcare varies across countries, groups, and individuals, largely influenced by social, countries and jurisdictions have different policies and plans in relation to the personal and population-based health care goals within their societies. Healthcare systems are organizations established to meet the needs of target populations. Their exact configuration varies between national and subnational entities, in some countries and jurisdictions, healthcare planning is distributed among market participants, whereas in others, planning occurs more centrally among governments or other coordinating bodies. Healthcare can contribute to a significant part of a countrys economy. In 2011, the healthcare industry consumed an average of 9.3 percent of the GDP or US$3,322 per capita across the 34 members of OECD countries.1 years, a gain of 10 years since 1970. The USA ranges only on place 26 among the 34 OECD member countries, all OECD countries have achieved universal health coverage, except Mexico and the USA. Healthcare is conventionally regarded as an important determinant in promoting the general physical and mental health, an example of this was the worldwide eradication of smallpox in 1980, declared by the WHO as the first disease in human history to be completely eliminated by deliberate health care interventions. The delivery of health care depends on groups of trained professionals and paraprofessionals coming together as interdisciplinary teams. Healthcare can be defined as public or private. Primary care refers to the work of professionals who act as a first point of consultation for all patients within the health care system. Depending on the nature of the condition, patients may then be referred for secondary or tertiary care. Primary care is used as the term for the health care services which play a role in the local community. It can be provided in different settings, such as Urgent care centres which provide services to patients same day with appointment or walk-in bases, consequently, a primary care practitioner must possess a wide breadth of knowledge in many areas. The International Classification of Primary Care is a tool for understanding and analyzing information on interventions in primary care by the reason for the patient visit. Common chronic illnesses usually treated in primary care may include, for example, hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD, depression and anxiety, back pain, Primary care also includes many basic maternal and child health care services, such as family planning services and vaccinations. Physicians in this model bill patients directly for services, either on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis. Examples of direct primary care practices include Foundation Health in Colorado, the World Health Organization attributes the provision of essential primary care as an integral component of an inclusive primary health care strategy
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George VI
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George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth, known as Albert until his accession, George VI was born in the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria, and was named after his great-grandfather Albert, Prince Consort. As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent his life in the shadow of his elder brother. He attended naval college as a teenager, and served in the Royal Navy, in 1920, he was made Duke of York. He married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 and they had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, in the mid-1920s, he had speech therapy for a stammer, which he never fully overcame. Georges elder brother ascended the throne as Edward VIII upon the death of their father in 1936, however, later that year Edward revealed his desire to marry divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin advised Edward that for political and religious reasons he could not marry a divorced woman, Edward abdicated in order to marry, and George ascended the throne as the third monarch of the House of Windsor. During Georges reign, the break-up of the British Empire and its transition into the Commonwealth of Nations accelerated, the parliament of the Irish Free State removed direct mention of the monarch from the countrys constitution on the day of his accession. The following year, a new Irish constitution changed the name of the state to Ireland, from 1939, the Empire and Commonwealth – except Ireland – was at war with Nazi Germany. War with Italy and Japan followed in 1940 and 1941, respectively, though Britain and its allies were ultimately victorious in 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union rose as pre-eminent world powers and the British Empire declined. After the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, George remained king of countries, but relinquished the title of Emperor of India in June 1948. Ireland formally declared itself a republic and left the Commonwealth in 1949, George adopted the new title of Head of the Commonwealth. He was beset by problems in the later years of his reign. He was succeeded by his eldest daughter, Elizabeth II, George was born at York Cottage, on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria. His father was Prince George, Duke of York, the second and eldest-surviving son of the Prince and his mother was the Duchess of York, the eldest child and only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Teck. His birthday was the 34th anniversary of the death of his great-grandfather, Albert, uncertain of how the Prince Consorts widow, Queen Victoria, would take the news of the birth, the Prince of Wales wrote to the Duke of York that the Queen had been rather distressed. Two days later, he again, I really think it would gratify her if you yourself proposed the name Albert to her. Consequently, he was baptised Albert Frederick Arthur George at St. Mary Magdalenes Church near Sandringham three months later, within the family, he was known informally as Bertie
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Physics of magnetic resonance imaging
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The human body is largely composed of water molecules, each containing two hydrogen nuclei, or protons. When inside the field of the scanner, the magnetic moments of these protons align with the direction of the field. A radio frequency pulse is applied, causing the protons to alter their magnetization alignment relative to the field. In response to the force bringing them back to their equilibrium orientation and these changes in magnetization alignment cause a changing magnetic flux, which yields a changing voltage in receiver coils to give the signal. The frequency at which a proton or group of protons in a voxel resonates depends on the strength of the magnetic field around the proton or group of protons. Due to the magnetic Lorentz force from B0 on the current flowing in the gradient coils, the knocking sounds heard during an MRI scan are the result of the gradient coils trying to move against the constraint of the concrete or epoxy in which they are secured. Diseased tissue, such as tumors, can be detected because the protons in different tissues return to their state at different rates. By changing the parameters on the scanner this effect is used to create contrast between different types of body tissue, contrast agents may be injected intravenously to enhance the appearance of blood vessels, tumors or inflammation. Contrast agents may also be injected into a joint in the case of arthrograms. Unlike CT, MRI uses no ionizing radiation and is generally a safe procedure. Subatomic particles have the mechanical property of spin. Certain nuclei such as 1H, 2H, 3He, 23Na or 31P, have a non–zero spin, in the case of the so-called spin- 1⁄2 nuclei, such as 1H, there are two spin states, sometimes referred to as up and down. Nuclei such as 12C have no unpaired neutrons or protons, and no net spin, however, when these spins are placed in a strong external magnetic field they precess around an axis along the direction of the field. Protons align in two energy eigenstates, one low-energy and one high-energy, which are separated by a small splitting energy. In the static magnetic fields used in MRI, the energy difference between the nuclear spin states corresponds to a radio-frequency photon. Resonant absorption of energy by the due to an external oscillating magnetic field will occur at the Larmor frequency for the particular nucleus. The spin of the proton has two states, the net longitudinal magnetization in thermodynamical equilibrium is due to a tiny excess of protons in the lower energy state. This gives a net polarization that is parallel to the external field, application of a radio frequency pulse can tip this net polarization vector sideways, or even reverse it
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Evening Express (Scotland)
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The Evening Express is a daily local newspaper serving the city of Aberdeen in Scotland. It was first published in November 1879 and it was a tabloid during the 1930s to the 1950s until it resumed a broadsheet in November 1958, six days a week. By September 1989, The Saturday edition returned to a tabloid with the broadsheet formula during the weekdays and it became a tabloid six days a week in February 1995. There was also a Saturday night paper called the Green Final which ended in June 2002 after many years in which it was printed on paper instead of the usual white. It showed progress on how Aberdeen FC did in their matches as well as a check on the days football results. For many years, the Green Final was a broadsheet until it became a tabloid from 1988 till the end, the name occasionally reappears when the paper features junior football reports. To celebrate its 40, 000th edition, the Evening Express held a competition for one of its readers to win 40,000 one penny pieces – totalling £400, the paper along with the Press and Journal is published by Aberdeen Journals Ltd. It has a circulation of 30,929, in the Weekend section, every Saturday, TV critic Ewan Cameron gives his rundown on the weeks programmes. Evening Express Sports Editor Charlie Allan, Former Aberdeen F. C. footballers Stewart McKimmie, another former Don Willie Miller has recently joined them. Sports reporter Sean Wallace also has a weekly column, the paper was a staunch supporter of the building of a highly controversial golf resort by Donald Trump at the Menie Estate in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire. The development was against the wishes of local residents. In 2007, the Evening Express ran pictures of seven councillors who voted against the application under the headline You Traitors, in 2009, the newspaper announced it would not report anything said by the protest group Tripping Up Trump, saying it was not bona fide. In 2013, Press and Journal editor Damian Bates, who was editor at the Evening Express, married the executive vice president. As of 29 February 2008 the players of Aberdeen Football Club stated that they would no longer give interviews to the Evening Express, the players cited perceived negative reporting on the part of the paper as their reason for the move. Sports Editor Charlie Allan proposed a meeting with Scott Severin, Allan instead met with club media officer Dave Macdermid, who gave a short interview to the Evening Express. Aberdeen FC manager Jimmy Calderwood did not observe the silence of his players and he did however state, as did Macdermid, that the players had taken particular offence to the papers speculation that a number of them would be leaving the club in the summer. Calderwood said that the Evening Express had been naughty to do so, in early March the ban on giving interviews to the Evening Express was lifted, and the players resumed normal communications with the paper. List of newspapers in Scotland Evening Express, the web site of the Evening Express
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John Swinney
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John Ramsay Swinney is a Scottish National Party politician who is currently the Deputy First Minister of Scotland and the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills. He is also the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Perthshire North, Perthshire North takes in Highland and East Perthshire, the Carse of Gowrie and the Perth City Centre ward of Perth and Kinross Council. Swinney was born in the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, the son of Kenneth Swinney and his uncle Tom Hunter was awarded the Victoria Cross whilst serving with the Royal Marines in World War II. He was educated at Forrester High School, before attending the University of Edinburgh, Swinney joined the SNP at the age of 15, citing his anger at the way in which Scotland had been portrayed by television commentators at the Commonwealth Games. Swinney was an officer for the Scottish Coal Project, a senior management consultant with Development Options. In the SNP, he served as National Secretary until 1992, then Vice Convenor, at the 1997 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the Tayside North constituency, and in 1999 he was elected to represent the same area at the Scottish Parliament. He stood down as a Westminster MP at the 2001 general election in order to avoid splitting his time and he defeated a leadership challenge from Bill Wilson in 2003, defeating Wilson by 577 votes to 111. After the SNP emerged as the largest party following the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election and he was later appointed Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in the Cabinet of the minority SNP government. The Scottish Government added, The power has not lapsed, the HMRC simply does not have an IT system capable of delivering a ten-month state of readiness, in 2000, Swinney was elected Leader of the SNP, becoming Leader of the Opposition in the Scottish Parliament. He stood down as SNP leader in 2004 and became Convener of the Scottish Parliaments European and External Relations Committee. Swinney was previously a Member of Parliament for Tayside North in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, in 2007 he achieved the largest constituency vote for any candidate in Scotland. At the election in May 2011, he was re-elected with 18,219 votes, swinneys vote was the second highest in Scotland, second only to the then First Minister, Alex Salmond MSP. Following Nicola Sturgeon taking the office of First Minister, it was announced on 21 November 2014 that Swinney would become Deputy First Minister of Scotland in a cabinet reshuffle. Born in Edinburgh, Swinney was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Swinney is married and has three children. John Swinney MSP Scottish Parliament – John Swinney MSP Hansard 1803–2005, contributions in Parliament by John Swinney
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Citizens Advice
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The twin aims of the Citizens Advice service are to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and secondly to improve the policies and principles that affect peoples lives. This research and campaigns agenda also known as policy is more preventative in nature. Citizens Advice organisations emerged in the 1930s linked to the emergence of a social welfare service. Citizens Advice has grown to be the largest independent advice provider in the United Kingdom, there are also a number of Citizens Advice organisations that base themselves on the United Kingdom advice charity mainly in parts of the Commonwealth including Australia, New Zealand, and Gibraltar. In 2014 Citizens Advice celebrated its 75th anniversary and in 2015 the charity was named Charity of the Year at the 2015 Charity Awards, the origins of the modern Citizens Advice service can be traced back to the Betterton Report on Public Assistance from 1924. This report recommended that advice centres should be set up to members of the public advice to help them with their problems. During the 1930s, as preparations and plans were drawn up for the possibility of war, the National Council for Social Service called a meeting in 1938 in which plans to establish Citizens Aid Bureaux were devised in the event of war. The first 200 bureaux opened on 4 September 1939, four days after World War II started, many of these initial bureaux were run by people of standing in the community. By 1942, there were 1,074 bureaux in a range of improvised offices such as cafes, church halls, private homes. Sheffield set up in the cloisters of Sheffield Cathedral after its premises were bombed during World War II, mobile offices also became important in ensuring that people could access advice. Many of the issues dealt with during that time were related to the war. These included the tracing of missing servicemen or prisoners of war, evacuations, pensions, many war time bureaux closed at the end of the war, although it was apparent that there was still a need for the services that had been established. A particular problem was the housing shortage in the years immediately following the end of the war. In the 1950s, the funding was cut and by 1960 there were only 415 bureaux, the Citizens Advice service continued due to charitable support from groups such as the Nuffield Foundation, Carnegie Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. In 1972, The Citizens Advice service became independent, before then, the national organisation was part of NCSS and most bureaux were run by the local CVS. In 1973, the government funded NACAB, the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, the 1984 afternoon television drama series Miracles Take Longer depicted the type of cases that a 1980s branch would have to deal with. David Harker became CEO in 1997 and he led Citizens Advice until 2010 and during that time oversaw a massive IT overhaul. Since 2003, the name of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux changed to Citizens Advice
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Granite
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Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture. Granites can be white, pink, or gray in color. The word granite comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the structure of such a holocrystalline rock. By definition, granite is a rock with at least 20% quartz. The term granitic means granite-like and is applied to granite and a group of igneous rocks with similar textures and slight variations in composition. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a texture is known as a granite porphyry. Granitoid is a general, descriptive field term for lighter-colored, coarse-grained igneous rocks, petrographic examination is required for identification of specific types of granitoids. The extrusive igneous rock equivalent of granite is rhyolite, Granite is nearly always massive, hard and tough, and therefore it has gained widespread use throughout human history, and more recently as a construction stone. The average density of granite is between 2.65 and 2.75 g/cm3, its compressive strength usually lies above 200 MPa, and its viscosity near STP is 3–6 •1019 Pa·s. The melting temperature of dry granite at ambient pressure is 1215–1260 °C, it is reduced in the presence of water. Granite has poor primary permeability, but strong secondary permeability, true granite according to modern petrologic convention contains both plagioclase and alkali feldspars. When a granitoid is devoid or nearly devoid of plagioclase, the rock is referred to as alkali feldspar granite, when a granitoid contains less than 10% orthoclase, it is called tonalite, pyroxene and amphibole are common in tonalite. A granite containing both muscovite and biotite micas is called a binary or two-mica granite, two-mica granites are typically high in potassium and low in plagioclase, and are usually S-type granites or A-type granites. A worldwide average of the composition of granite, by weight percent, based on 2485 analyses. Much of it was intruded during the Precambrian age, it is the most abundant basement rock that underlies the relatively thin veneer of the continents. Outcrops of granite tend to form tors and rounded massifs, granites sometimes occur in circular depressions surrounded by a range of hills, formed by the metamorphic aureole or hornfels. Granite often occurs as small, less than 100 km² stock masses
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Medicine
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Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. The word medicine is derived from Latin medicus, meaning a physician, Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Medicine has existed for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art frequently having connections to the religious and philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher. In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art, while stitching technique for sutures is an art learned through practice, the knowledge of what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the tissues being stitched arises through science. Prescientific forms of medicine are now known as medicine and folk medicine. They remain commonly used with or instead of medicine and are thus called alternative medicine. For example, evidence on the effectiveness of acupuncture is variable and inconsistent for any condition, in contrast, treatments outside the bounds of safety and efficacy are termed quackery. Medical availability and clinical practice varies across the world due to differences in culture. In modern clinical practice, physicians personally assess patients in order to diagnose, treat, the doctor-patient relationship typically begins an interaction with an examination of the patients medical history and medical record, followed by a medical interview and a physical examination. Basic diagnostic medical devices are typically used, after examination for signs and interviewing for symptoms, the doctor may order medical tests, take a biopsy, or prescribe pharmaceutical drugs or other therapies. Differential diagnosis methods help to rule out conditions based on the information provided, during the encounter, properly informing the patient of all relevant facts is an important part of the relationship and the development of trust. The medical encounter is then documented in the record, which is a legal document in many jurisdictions. Follow-ups may be shorter but follow the general procedure. The diagnosis and treatment may take only a few minutes or a few weeks depending upon the complexity of the issue, the components of the medical interview and encounter are, Chief complaint, the reason for the current medical visit. They are in the patients own words and are recorded along with the duration of each one, also called chief concern or presenting complaint. History of present illness, the order of events of symptoms. Distinguishable from history of illness, often called past medical history
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The Guardian
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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper, known from 1821 until 1959 as the Manchester Guardian. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, the Scott Trust became a limited company in 2008, with a constitution to maintain the same protections for The Guardian. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than to the benefit of an owner or shareholders, the Guardian is edited by Katharine Viner, who succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. In 2016, The Guardians print edition had a daily circulation of roughly 162,000 copies in the country, behind The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper has an online UK edition as well as two international websites, Guardian Australia and Guardian US, the newspapers online edition was the fifth most widely read in the world in October 2014, with over 42.6 million readers. Its combined print and online editions reach nearly 9 million British readers, notable scoops include the 2011 News International phone hacking scandal, in particular the hacking of murdered English teenager Milly Dowlers phone. The investigation led to the closure of the UKs biggest selling Sunday newspaper, and one of the highest circulation newspapers in the world, in 2016, it led the investigation into the Panama Papers, exposing the then British Prime Minister David Camerons links to offshore bank accounts. The Guardian has been named Newspaper of the Year four times at the annual British Press Awards, the paper is still occasionally referred to by its nickname of The Grauniad, given originally for the purported frequency of its typographical errors. The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor with backing from the Little Circle and they launched their paper after the police closure of the more radical Manchester Observer, a paper that had championed the cause of the Peterloo Massacre protesters. They do not toil, neither do they spin, but they better than those that do. When the government closed down the Manchester Observer, the champions had the upper hand. The influential journalist Jeremiah Garnett joined Taylor during the establishment of the paper, the prospectus announcing the new publication proclaimed that it would zealously enforce the principles of civil and religious Liberty. Warmly advocate the cause of Reform, endeavour to assist in the diffusion of just principles of Political Economy and. Support, without reference to the party from which they emanate, in 1825 the paper merged with the British Volunteer and was known as The Manchester Guardian and British Volunteer until 1828. The working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser called the Manchester Guardian the foul prostitute, the Manchester Guardian was generally hostile to labours claims. The Manchester Guardian dismissed strikes as the work of outside agitators –, if an accommodation can be effected, the occupation of the agents of the Union is gone. CP Scott made the newspaper nationally recognised and he was editor for 57 years from 1872, and became its owner when he bought the paper from the estate of Taylors son in 1907. Under Scott, the moderate editorial line became more radical, supporting William Gladstone when the Liberals split in 1886
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STV (TV channel)
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STV is a television channel serving the majority of Scotland. It operates the two ITV licensees in northern and central Scotland, formerly known as Grampian Television and Scottish Television, the brand was adopted on Tuesday 30 May 2006 replacing both franchises identities. In 2013, STV won licences to launch local TV channels in Glasgow, STV Glasgow launched on 2 June 2014, with STV Edinburgh following on 12 January 2015. In spring 2017, the city channels are to be rebranded as STV2 and operated in combination with new franchises centred on Aberdeen, Dundee, there is no STV South as Southern Scotland is part of the ITV Border region and programmes are presented there under the ITV Border brand. Emphasising the fact that STV is essentially one channel across the two regions, there is a director of channels, and a single head of news. Terms in the renewed licences for both STV Central and STV North also mean that regional non-news programmes are shared across both licences. Although the stations are required to produce 1.5 hours a week of regional non-news programmes, the chief executive of STV Group plc. Today, news and current affairs forms the bulk of STVs regular programming on Channel 3, on a network scale, one of STVs most famous exports is the long-running crime drama Taggart, set in Glasgow. The networks range of programmes was dramatically expanded during the 1990s under director Alistair Moffat, another of the stations best-known programmes, Scotsport, ran continuously for 51 years until May 2008 and remains one of the worlds longest-running television sports programmes. ITVs coverage of the FA Cup was also dropped, ITV plc claimed that STV were in breach of their network agreements by making this decision and sued STV for £38 million. STV launched its own legal action against ITV plc, claiming the company was owed money, the then executive chairman of ITV plc, Michael Grade claimed his company was the victim in the ongoing dispute. The company pledged to continue with its plan to more regional programming. On 27 April 2011, ITV plc and STV settled their legal dispute, the programming rights payment is capped at a maximum of £15 million. In addition, STV will receive £2.4 million of credit for programme opt outs in 2011, STV said it believed it was in the best interests of shareholders to end the long period of uncertainty. The parties have agreed the basis of a collaborative relationship for the future. The deal would see STV and UTV become affiliates of the network, at the time, the licence holders paid a percentage of the Channel 3 network costs based on their share of qualifying revenue. On 23 August 2012 STV confirmed the new agreement with ITV was in operation. The STV studios in Glasgow were originally located in the former Theatre Royal in the Cowcaddens area of the city, the first programme broadcast by STV from the Theatre Royal studios was This is Scotland on 31 August 1957
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BBC News
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BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the worlds largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, the service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world. James Harding has been Director of News and Current Affairs since April 2013, the departments annual budget is in excess of £350 million, it has 3,500 staff,2,000 of whom are journalists. BBC News domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London. Through the BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England, as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland, all nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes. As with all media outlets, though, it has been accused of political bias from across the political spectrum. The British Broadcasting Company broadcast its first radio bulletin from radio station 2LO on 14 November 1922, on Easter weekend in 1930, this reliance on newspaper wire services left the radio news service with no information to report. The BBC gradually gained the right to edit the copy and, in 1934, however, it could not broadcast news before 6 PM until World War II. Gaumont British and Movietone cinema newsreels had been broadcast on the TV service since 1936, a weekly Childrens Newsreel was inaugurated on 23 April 1950, to around 350,000 receivers. The network began simulcasting its radio news on television in 1946, televised bulletins began on 5 July 1954, broadcast from leased studios within Alexandra Palace in London. The publics interest in television and live events was stimulated by Elizabeth IIs coronation in 1953 and it is estimated that up to 27 million people viewed the programme in the UK, overtaking radios audience of 12 million for the first time. Those live pictures were fed from 21 cameras in central London to Alexandra Palace for transmission and that year, there were around two million TV Licences held in the UK, rising to over three million the following year, and four and a half million by 1955. This was then followed by the customary Television Newsreel with a commentary by John Snagge. It was revealed that this had been due to producers fearing a newsreader with visible facial movements would distract the viewer from the story. On-screen newsreaders were finally introduced a year later in 1955 – Kenneth Kendall, Robert Dougall, mainstream television production had started to move out of Alexandra Palace in 1950 to larger premises – mainly at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherds Bush, west London – taking Current Affairs with it. It was from here that the first Panorama, a new programme, was transmitted on 11 November 1953. On 28 October 1957, the Today programme, a radio programme, was launched in central London on the Home Service. In 1958, Hugh Carleton Greene became head of News and Current Affairs and he set up a BBC study group whose findings, published in 1959, were critical of what the television news operation had become under his predecessor, Tahu Hole
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Aberdeen Community Health and Care Village
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Aberdeen Community Health and Care Village also known as The Health Village is an urban community hospital located in the centre of Aberdeen, Scotland. The facility is used to provide a range of diagnostic. This approach allows people to remain in their own rather than using inpatient beds. The health village is the first healthcare facility to be completed in Scotland under the hub framework of the Scottish Futures Trust, plans for the complex were announced in 2010. It cost more than £15 million to construct and has brought state-of-the-art healthcare facilities to the area, the health village is expected to offer services to 700 patients a day, once all departments are operating at full capacity. The complex contains 275 rooms- including 3 dental suites,2 minor procedure rooms, up to 500 members of staff will be delivering services from the health village with 150-200 members of staff expected to be in the building at any one time. Services being run from the village include, cardiac rehabilitation, dentistry, dietetics, physiotherapy, podiatry, radiology, sexual health, speech and language therapy. An endoscopy service is planned to be located in the Health Village from June 2014, the health village will act as an educational resource for patients, carers and community-based staff. The health village will provide improved access to community based learning opportunities for healthcare professionals such as general practitioners. Aberdeen Community Health and Care Village Official information for patients, carers, visitors and members of the public
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Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
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The Royal Aberdeen Childrens Hospital or RACH is a childrens hospital in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Foresterhill site, with the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, the hospital provides a comprehensive service of paediatric specialties to Grampian, Highlands and Islands and Tayside. In 2012 the hospital revised their policy around the age of patients who could be admitted for care, the original RACH was built in 1929, and was replaced in 2004 by a modern hospital. Its performance against the Four-hour target in emergency departments was 99. 6% ranking third best in Scotland in August 2015
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Roxburghe House
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Roxburghe House is a specialist palliative care unit which is situated near Foresterhill, Aberdeen, Scotland. It is run by NHS Grampian, there is a multi-disciplinary team approach to providing care for patients. The team has three consultants, several specialist nurses and a team of trained and untrained nurses, other professionals involved in the team include occupational therapists, physiotherapists, pharmacists, chaplains, and social workers. Roxburghe House provides many services, not just for oncology patients, the facility was constructed in 2004. Prior to this it occupied a site in Milltimber, Aberdeen, in September 2012 an extended garden area was unveiled, which provides a peaceful and private area for patients and families. The Unit has a charity attached to it, the Friends Of Roxburghe, who help out with teas, coffees, reception duties, the Friends of Roxburghe House have been awarded the Queens Award for Voluntary Service
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Woodend Hospital
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Woodend Hospital is a hospital located in the Woodend area of Aberdeen, Scotland which is owned and operated by NHS Grampian. Woodend Hospital opened in 1927 as a hospital with a special block being set aside for the treatment of non-pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia. DOME, the Department of Medicine for the Elderly is based here and this is used as a base for University of Aberdeen geriatric medicine students. Many corporate services are based within Westholme, a building located to the south of the Woodend Hospital site. The finance, human resources and recruitment departments for the NHS Grampian board are located here
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Woolmanhill Hospital
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Woolmanhill Hospital was the original Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in the centre of Aberdeen, Scotland. The complex is centred on a main block with later nineteenth century buildings to the rear. Unusually, it has remained largely complete, with later building having taken place at Foresterhill, Woolmanhill Hospital was the original Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, before this moved to the Foresterhill site. The original hospital building on the site was begun in 1740, designed by William Christall, it opened in 1749. The Royal Infirmary, was rebuilt between 1833 and 1840, in the Grecian style, at the cost of £17,000, the Simpson Pavilion, designed by Aberdeen architect, Archibald Simpson is one of the last surviving examples of a pre-Nightingale style of hospital design. Additions were made to the building in 1844 and following a fire in 1849 it was repaired, in 1887, new buildings, designed by W. & J. Smith & Kelly were constructed to the north of the site. This Jubilee Extension provided a new block, medical and pathology block. The 1840 building was converted into an administrative and clinical area, the mid nineteenth century additions to the Simpson Pavilion were removed as part of this extension work. After the First World War, further expansion was required but the nature of the site made this impractical. Since then, the future of the Woolmanhill site has been uncertain, the building was designated a Category A listed building on 25 May 1977. In 1999, NHS Grampian was granted permission to close the hospital, a phased closure began and was originally due to be completed by the end of 2013. Departments moved to locations in Aberdeen, including the new Aberdeen Community Health and Care Village, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. In May 2013 the adult diabetic services moved to the David Anderson Building on Foresterhill site, there are now no in-patient beds in Woolmanhill. Until recently, it housed several out-patient departments including physiotherapy and the medicine clinic. Other clinics were held in the two Medical Out-Patient Departments in Woolmanhill. There was also a unit for osteoporosis, an X-Ray. Also located at Woolmanhill is the archives department, which includes historic medical records from patients across the NHS Grampian area. As of March 2015, both the ear, nose and throat and audiology Departments remain at Woolmanhill, with plans to move these services to Woodend Hospital in 2016, in February 2016, plans were revealed to convert four of the buildings into a hotel and serviced apartments
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Aberdeenshire
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Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the old County of Aberdeen which had different boundaries. Modern Aberdeenshire includes all of what was once Kincardineshire, as well as part of Banffshire, the old boundaries are still officially used for a few purposes, namely land registration and lieutenancy. Aberdeenshire Council is headquartered at Woodhill House, in Aberdeen, making it the only Scottish council whose headquarters are located outside its jurisdiction, Aberdeen itself forms a different council area. Aberdeenshire borders onto Angus and Perth and Kinross to the south, Highland and Moray to the west, traditionally, it has been economically dependent upon the primary sector and related processing industries. Its land represents 8% of Scotlands overall territory and it covers an area of 6,313 square kilometres. Aberdeenshire has a prehistoric and historic heritage. It is the locus of a number of Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological sites, including Longman Hill, Kempstone Hill, Catto Long Barrow. The area was settled in the Bronze Age by the Beaker culture, in the Iron Age, hill forts were built. Around the 1st century AD, the Taexali people, who have little history, were believed to have resided along the coast. The Picts were the next documented inhabitants of the area, and were no later than 800-900 AD, the Romans also were in the area during this period, as they left signs at Kintore. Christianity influenced the early on, and there were Celtic monasteries at Old Deer. Since medieval times there have been a number of paths that crossed the Mounth through present-day Aberdeenshire from the Scottish Lowlands to the Highlands. Some of the most well known and historically important trackways are the Causey Mounth, Aberdeenshire played an important role in the fighting between the Scottish clans. Clan MacBeth and the Clan Canmore were two of the larger clans, macbeth fell at Lumphanan in 1057. During the Anglo-Norman penetration, other families such as House of Balliol, Clan Bruce. When the fighting amongst these newcomers resulted in the Scottish Wars of Independence, in 1307, Robert the Bruce was victorious near Inverurie. Along with his victory came new families, namely the Forbeses and these new families set the stage for the upcoming rivalries during the 14th and 15th centuries
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Glen O'Dee Hospital
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Glen O Dee Hospital is situated in the west end of Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is a community hospital that provides services for the population of Royal Deeside supported by the general practitioners from the local GP practices, the original building was built in 1900 and started its life as Nordrach on Dee Hospital, a sanctuary for tuberculosis patients. When TB died down it served as a hotel, but was taken over during the war to serve as a billet for troops. In 1955 it became a convalescent hospital and it reprised its role in contagious diseases when the typhoid epidemic hit nearby Aberdeen in the 1960s, but its last use was as a residential home for the elderly. The original building closed in 1998, when a new purpose built building was built on the same site, the original building has been featured on the BBCs Restoration programme, but it has sat empty and deteriorating since 1998. The historic building was destroyed by fire on 14 October 2016, pictures of the decaying interior of the original building Aerial photo 1 of the derelict hospital taken in May 2015 Aerial photo 2 of the derelict hospital taken in May 2015
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Moray
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Moray is one of the 32 Local Government council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, between 1975 and 1996 Moray, with similar boundaries, was a district of the then Grampian Region. The name, first attested around 970 as Moreb, and in Latinised form by 1124 as Morauia, derives from the earlier Celtic forms *mori sea and *treb settlement. During the middle ages the Mormaerdom of Moray was much larger than the council area, covering much of what is now Highland. During this period Moray may for a time have either an independent kingdom or a highly autonomous vassal of Alba. In the early 12th century the mormaerdom/kingdom was defeated by David I of Scotland following a conflict with Óengus of Moray, after that the title became defunct until the 14th century when Thomas Randolph was granted the title Earl of Moray. The earldom would subsequently be destroyed and recreated four times, with its last creation surviving to this day, currently held by John Douglas Stuart, over the centuries the territory of the County of Moray contracted to the area around Elgin. The modern day boundaries of Moray date from the 1975 reorganisation of government in Scotland. The old County of Moray was merged with parts of Banffshire to create an enlarged Moray district, some territory to the west was lost to the Highland Region. In 1996, under the Local Government etc, act 1994, Moray became a single-tier subdivision of Scotland. The lieutenancy area and registration county of Moray cover smaller areas that are similar to the old county, Moray Council currently has 26 members elected using single transferable vote in 8 wards. Currently the council is controlled by an Independent-Conservative coalition, for elections to the House of Commons, Morays boundaries match with the Moray constituency. The current MP is Angus Robertson of the Scottish National Party, Moray is one of the SNPs longest continuously-held seats. For the Scottish Parliament, the majority of Moray is in the Moray constituency, the eastern corner of Moray is instead in the Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency and the North East Scotland electoral region. In the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Moray voted No by a percentage of 57. 6%. In the 2016 European Union membership referendum, Moray voted Remain by a 50. 1% margin and it had the biggest percentage for Leave out of all the Scottish council areas and the narrowest margin of victory for either side anywhere in the UK. The large majority of Morays population live in the part of the district. Elgin is by far the largest town, being home to 25% of the population at the 2011 census, there are 45 primary and eight secondary schools in Moray and the council currently has responsibility for educating more than 13,000 school pupils
