NHS Shetland Healthcare Services
Shetland NHS Board is responsible for determining the need for, and the provision of, healthcare facilities for both local residents and the transient population based on the North Sea oil installations, fishing vessels etc.
Healthcare Services are either Shetland-wide, where the service is available to everyone and is usually based in a hospital, or local community services, which are usually provided from a Health Centre. In addition NHS Shetland also has services which provide support for healthcare staff.
A range of in-patient, day-patient, out-patient, accident and emergency, and local community services are provided at two hospitals, 10 health centres and a number of other locations in the community including schools, mobile units, the remoter islands and patients' own homes.