Scotland Archives

4 March 2009

GP representatives in Scotland have called for full integration of GP and secondary care systems and changes to out-of-hours services

3 March 2009

More than 60% of payment claims for acute prescriptions in Scotland will be made electronically by May, according to the

26 February 2009

Online scanning to allow remote diagnosis for island-based patients and Scotland’s biggest telehealth system are among a range of hi-tech

24 February 2009

Wales is due to launch its own electronic referral system in the summer, with a version of the clinical communications

29 January 2009

The length of the patient information programme run before Summary Care Records are uploaded to the Spine could be cut

6 January 2009

Scottish health helpline NHS 24 received one telephone call every two seconds at the height of demand for its service

12 December 2008

NHS Connecting for Health is planning to start "extended user acceptance testing" of the new NHSmail platform on Monday.

8 December 2008

Seven BBC journalists have been told that information held on their Emergency Care Summary in Scotland may have been inappropriately

4 December 2008

Dr Gray’s Hospital in the north of Scotland is aiming to set itself up as an e-health centre with a

28 November 2008

Two Scottish health boards have been found in breach of data protection laws for leaving patients’ personal information on paper

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