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regional hospital boards have been controlling boards of management, who looked after hospitals in groups or single large teaching hospitals, with executive councils looking after the functions of medical practitioners, dental surgeons, pharmacists and opticians.
On April 1, the tripartite organisations cease to function and, in their places, 15 area health boards will be responsible for all the health services in each particular area.
These area health boards will exercise full executive functions. Local participation will be at health council level, where local authority and various voluntary bodies will have an opportunity to nominate interested members of the public to the body who will act as a consultant body to the new boards.
Basically, five regional hospital boards of management, 25 executive councils and 56 local authority health departments, will cease to function on March 31.
Campbeltown will become a part of the new Argyll and Clyde Health Board, with headquarters in Paisley.
The board has defined four districts: Argyll and Bute, Dumbarton, Renfrew and Inverclyde District, with a population of over 500,000.
There are 19 members on the board under a chairman, Mr WP Blyth, Clarkston, Renfrewshire. The Argyll members are: Ex-Provost Daniel McKinven, Dr AC Mayer, Mrs JY Nelson Mr D McDiarmid, and Miss T Turner. it to bring the grass forward, everything in the fields would be lovely.
The father of Captain Lachlan Mactavish, who recently retired after 20 years on the bridge of the Columba, was one of the two Knapdale farmers selected to ride as escort to Queen Victoria when she sailed through the Crinan Canal on her first “Royal Route” tour.