The NHS in Scotland
NHS Ayrshire and Arran is one of 14 NHS Boards in Scotland. The organisation serves a population of more than 366,000 and currently employs around 9,000 staff.
Each NHS Board is accountable to the Scottish Government. Regional NHS Boards are responsible for the protection and the improvement of their population’s health and for the delivery of frontline healthcare services.
Introducing NHS Ayrshire & Arran
Our purpose
Working together to achieve the healthiest life possible for everyone in Ayrshire and Arran.
Our values
- Caring I will show concern for others and care about the health, safety and wellbeing of everyone I come into contact with.
- Safe I will do my job well, striving to learn and do things better, while taking responsibility for the quality, safety, and effectiveness of my actions.
- Respectful I will see everyone as an individual, be open, approachable, and treat everyone with dignity and respect.
Our commitments
To our service users
We will work with you and your family to:
- Promote and improve your health
- Improve your safety, outcomes and quality of experience while in our care
- Live up to our customer care commitments
To our workforce
We will work together to create an open, fair and just culture where:
- We are all valued, respected and developed to be our best
- We are all informed, involved, listened to and treated fairly and consistently
- We are all safe and are supported to improve our health and wellbeing
To our partners
We will work together with partners to:
- improve health, prevent disease and reduce inequalities
- join up our service delivery to improve outcomes
- make best use of our resources
Our vision
The “Caring for Ayrshire” vision is that care shall be delivered as close to home as possible, supported by a network of community services with safe, effective and timely access to high quality specialist services for those whose needs cannot be met in the community.
We want to work in partnership with our communities to continue to explore new and innovative ways of designing and delivering health and care services. Caring for Ayrshire is led by Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board and the three Ayrshire Integration Joint Boards.
More Information
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