MEDICAL FACILITIES

• Hospital (with operating theatre facilities)
• Health Centre (7 doctors)
• Helicopter emergency service
• Close and convenient proximity to specialist medical services on the mainland
• Full-time NHS Dental Practice
• Optician
• 2 full-time Pharmacies Details (1), Details (2)
• 2 Respite Care and Day Care Centres (Victoria Hospital Annexe and Thomson Court)
• Several residential homes

EDUCATIONAL PROVISION

• Nursery school
• 3 Primary schools: North Bute Primary, Rothesay Primary, St Andrews Primary
• 1 Secondary School: Rothesay Academy
• Argyll College, Rothesay Campus (an academic partner of the UHI Millennium Institute)
• Bute is within daily commutable range of many University / Higher Education and Further Education institutions on the mainland: University of Glasgow, Strathclyde University, Paisley University, Glasgow Caledonian University, James Watt College ; Reid Kerr College

SUPPORT SERVICES

• Community Education
• Play group / Child care / creche
• Advice Centre
• Bute Healthy Living
• Community Centre (Moat)
• Job Centre (On page 1, Step 1, scroll down and click on "All"; then click "Next"; On page 2 for "Name of Place" enter Rothesay, click "Next"; On page 3, click "Next")
• Bute Youth Project and "The Zone" Drop-in Centre for young people
• Bute Community Links
• Bute Stroke Patients Support Group
• Bute Kidney Patients Support Group
• Bute Bosom Buddies, breast-feeding initiative
• Alcoholics Anonymous