Healthcare in Cornwall serves the east. Specialised services are provided from other trusts outside the area. Cornwall Air Ambulance was the first dedicated helicopter emergency medical service operational in the United Kingdom. The Duchy Hospital in Truro run by Ramsay Health Care UK is the only private hospital in the County. It has 27 in-patient beds. In May 2015 it was reported that Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust were considering a merger. Healthcare in Cornwall Healthcare in Cornwall, United Kingdom, is now the responsibility of Kernow clinical commissioning group, a National Health Service (NHS) organisation set up
Culture of Cornwall Cousin Rachel", and "The House on the Strand". She is also noted for writing "Vanishing Cornwall". Cornwall provided the inspiration for "The Birds", one of her terrifying series of short stories, made famous as a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" featuring Sherlock Holmes is set in Cornwall. Howard Spring lived in Cornwall from 1939 and set part or all of various novels in the County. Medieval Cornwall is also the setting of the trilogy by Monica Furlong, "Wise Child", "Juniper", and "Colman", as well as part of Charles Kingsley's "Hereward the Wake". Winston