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
Hundreds of Cornwall Hundreds of Cornwall The hundreds of Cornwall () were administrative divisions (hundreds) into which Cornwall, the present day administrative county of England, in the United Kingdom, was divided between and 1894, when they were replaced with local government districts Some of the names of the hundreds ended with the suffix "shire" as in Pydarshire, East and West Wivelshire and Powdershire which were first recorded as names between 1184 and 1187. In the Cornish language the word "keverang" ("pl. keverangow") is the equivalent for English "hundred" and the Welsh cantref. The word, in its plural form, appears in place names like