Whether a date has been set for the dissolution of NHS Argyll and Clyde and the establishment of an NHS board for the Greater Glasgow area …

A date has been set. ScottishStatutory Instrument 2006 No. 32 – The National Health Service (Constitution ofHealth Boards) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2006 formally dissolves NHS Argylland Clyde from 1 April, 2006. A further instrument, Scottish Statutory Instrument2006 No. 33 – The National Health Service (Variation of the Areas of Greater Glasgowand Highland Health Boards) (Scotland) Order 2006 lays out the formal steps necessaryto transfer the responsibilities, staff, assets and other resources of NHS Argylland Clyde Health Board to NHS Greater Glasgow and NHS Highland.
The effect of these Orders isthat from 1 April 2006, health services in the Argyll and Bute local authority areawill become the responsibility of NHS Highland, while services in the local authorityareas of Inverclyde, Renfrew, and those parts of East Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshirenot already within NHS Greater Glasgow, will become the responsibility of NHS GreaterGlasgow.
NHS Greater Glasgow has recentlyconsulted on changing its name to reflect its extended boundaries and I understandthat from the 1 April, NHS Greater Glasgow will be commonly known as NHS GreaterGlasgow and Clyde.