NHS Fife

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

NHS Fife (NHS Fife University Health Board, as of July 2025)[3] is an NHS board which provides healthcare services in Fife, Scotland. It is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland.

Hospitals

Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, the site of the only A&E department in Fife

The board runs two main hospitals:[4]

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

Finances

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.[5]

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.[6]

Controversies

Peggie v NHS Fife

In 2024, NHS Fife suspended a nurse following an altercation at the Victoria Hospital in which the nurse in question supposedly made comments about a transgender doctor's use of the female changing facilities.[7] The nurse is currently pursuing NHS Fife under the Equality Act 2010. The tribunal, as of June 2025, has cost around £259,000 which NHS Fife is liable to pay £25,000 of.[7][8] (main article)

References

  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. ^ https://www.nhsfife.org/about-us/nhs-fife-board/nhs-fife-university-health-board/
  4. ^ "Hospitals & Health Centres". NHS Fife. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  5. ^ "NHS Fife books end year in red". Fife Today. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  6. ^ Warrender, Claire. "NHS Fife buildings in need of almost £90m of maintenance work". The Courier. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Lawyers for nurse in trans case criticise 'irresponsible' health board". BBC News. 18 July 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
  8. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2xz2wwwwo
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