Life Expectancy for Administrative Areas within Scotland, 2004-2006

5. Notes and Definitions

5.1 Following the dissolution of NHS Argyll & Clyde on 31^st March 2006, its area has been split between Greater Glasgow and Highland NHS Boards and the former has been renamed Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The calculation to produce figures for the new NHS Board areas in this report are as follows:

NHS Highland = old NHS Highland plus Argyll & Bute Council area;
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde = old NHS Greater Glasgow plus (old NHS Argyll & Clyde minus Argyll & Bute Council area).

5.2 The composition of the NHS Board areas in terms of Council areas is summarised in the table below. Maps of Council and NHS Board areas can be found on pages 41, 42 and 43.

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
Argyll & Clyde	Argyll & Bute, East Renfrewshire (part), Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire (part), Stirling (part)
Greater Glasgow & Clyde part ²	East Renfrewshire (part), Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire (part), Stirling (part)
Highland part ²	Argyll & Bute
Greater Glasgow	East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire (part), Glasgow City, North Lanarkshire (part), South Lanarkshire (part), West Dunbartonshire (part)
Highland	Highland

¹ New Board areas including parts of former Argyll & Clyde.
² Areas of former Argyll & Clyde inherited by new Boards on 1st April 2006.
Note: In practice there are some other very small "slivers" where NHS Board and Council area boundaries cross.

image of map: Council areas (as as 1st April 2006)

image of map: NHS Board areas (as at 1st April 2006)

image of map: NHS Board areas (prior to 1st April 2006)

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