Scots docs: life shouldn’t begin at 40
A scheme to invite all adults over the age of 40 to complete a health check online or over the telephone has been branded a waste of money by GPs.
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Northgate wins £6m Scottish portal deal
Northgate Managed Services has won a deal worth more than £6m to deliver, implement and manage a clinical portal for a third of Scotland’s health boards over the next five years.
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Scots pharmacists look for ECS access
Community pharmacists in Scotland are hopeful that they will be able to access the Emergency Care Summary following the Scottish general election.
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Scotland rolls out security campaign
A campaign with the slogan ‘Security – it’s everyone’s business’ is being run by Health Facilities Scotland.
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Amor Group builds for Golden Jubilee
Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank has turned to Scottish company Amor Group for a single records system for cardiac, thoracic and cardiology patients.
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NHS Borders first with TrakCare
NHS Borders has become the first health board to go live with the InterSystems TrakCare patient management system under a contract designed to provide a single PMS for the whole of Scotland.
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Scottish NHS staff get GPS alert devices
Mobile tracking and alert devices are to be issued to staff in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to protect them from stalkers.
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Pick of EHI Primary Care 2010
The implications of the government’s overhaul of the NHS dominated the minds of those working in and for the health service in 2010.
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Singing in the rain
There’s a sunny outlook for healthcare IT in Scotland, Sarah Bruce hears at a conference in rainy Glasgow.
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Scotland looks at NHS office software
NHS National Services Scotland is providing NHS staff with free copies of a new NHS office product in order to find desktop software suitable to deploy across the NHS at a fraction of the price of Microsoft Office.
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