NHS Scotland

Publicly-funded healthcare system in Scotland
Organization government_agency Q16933548
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NHS Scotland

Summary

NHS Scotland is a government agency[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of government_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (143 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • NHS Scotland is located in City of Edinburgh[3].
  • NHS Scotland is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • NHS Scotland's instance of is recorded as government agency[5].
  • NHS Scotland's instance of is recorded as health system[6].
  • NHS Scotland's headquarters location is recorded as St Andrew's House[7].
  • NHS Scotland's ISNI is recorded as 0000000095066213[8].
  • NHS Scotland's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 140016913[9].
  • NHS Scotland's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 130381739[10].
  • NHS Scotland's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as nr2004004095[11].
  • NHS Scotland's location is recorded as Edinburgh[12].
  • NHS Scotland's child organization or unit is recorded as Health Protection Scotland[13].
  • NHS Scotland's child organization or unit is recorded as Healthcare Improvement Scotland[14].
  • NHS Scotland's part of is recorded as National Health Service[15].
  • NHS Scotland's Commons category is recorded as NHS Scotland[16].
  • +1948-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of NHS Scotland[17].
  • NHS Scotland's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0d3f7s[18].
  • NHS Scotland's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ko2011425500[19].
  • NHS Scotland's official website is recorded as https://www.scot.nhs.uk/[20].
  • NHS Scotland's topic's main category is recorded as Category:NHS Scotland[21].
  • NHS Scotland's BBC Things ID is recorded as 88500fe4-39d6-4991-bab1-01dcb1ad26dd[22].
  • NHS Scotland's GRID ID is recorded as grid.422655.2[23].
  • NHS Scotland's exact match is recorded as https://findthatcharity.uk/orgid/XI-ROR-04za2st18[24].
  • NHS Scotland's Open Funder Registry funder ID is recorded as 100010527[25].
  • NHS Scotland's Quora topic ID is recorded as NHS-Scotland[26].
  • NHS Scotland's Ringgold ID is recorded as 1016[27].

Body

Founding

+1948-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of NHS Scotland[17].

Identity

NHS Scotland's part of is recorded as National Health Service[15].

Operations

NHS Scotland's headquarters location is recorded as St Andrew's House[7]. Subsidiaries include Health Protection Scotland[13], a government agency[28], in United Kingdom[29], founded in 2004[30] and Healthcare Improvement Scotland[14], a government agency[31], in United Kingdom[32], founded in 2011[33].

Why It Matters

NHS Scotland ranks in the top 3% of government_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (143 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . GRID Release 2017-01-10. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . GRID Release 2015-12-14. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . FindThatCharity.uk. Retrieved . findthatcharity.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Aligned ISNI and Ringgold identifiers for institutions. wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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