5.1 Following the dissolution of Argyll & Clyde NHS Board on 31st March 2006, its area has been split between Greater Glasgow and Highland NHS Boards and the former has been renamed Greater Glasgow & Clyde.
5.2 The composition of the NHS Board areas in terms of Council areas is summarised in the table below.
NHS Board area |
Council area |
Ayrshire & Arran |
East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire |
Borders |
Scottish Borders |
Dumfries & Galloway |
Dumfries & Galloway |
Fife |
Fife (part) |
Forth Valley |
Clackmannanshire, Falkirk (part), Stirling (part), Perth & Kinross (part) |
Grampian |
Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Moray |
Greater Glasgow & Clyde 1 |
East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire (part), Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire (part), Stirling (part), West Dunbartonshire |
Highland 1 |
Argyll & Bute, Highland |
Lanarkshire |
North Lanarkshire (part), South Lanarkshire (part), West Lothian (part), Falkirk (part) |
Lothian |
East Lothian, City of Edinburgh, Midlothian, West Lothian (part), Falkirk (part) |
Orkney |
Orkney Islands |
Shetland |
Shetland Islands |
Tayside |
Angus, Dundee City, Perth & Kinross (part), Fife (part) |
Western Isles |
Eilean Siar |
1 New Board areas including parts of former Argyll & Clyde NHS Board.