Sir John Peebles Arbuthnott (8 April 1939 – 21 February 2023) was a Scottish microbiologist who was Principal of the University of Strathclyde.
[2] Arbuthnott served as Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde between 1991 and 2000, succeeding Sir Graham Hills.
Arbuthnott was educated at Hyndland Senior Secondary School, the University of Glasgow (BSc, PhD), and Trinity College, Dublin (MA, ScD).
[5] The principal task of the independent review was to consider how money was allocated annually to fund the 14 Scottish NHS Boards.
[citation needed] The resulting mechanism, known as the Arbuthnott Formula, assesses key indicators of population, inequality and deprivation of the areas covered by each of the boards to allocate money.