Scotland awards device security contract
NHS National Services Scotland has awarded a £1m contract to Lumension to nationally enforce security policies governing the storage of data across the NHS.
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Scotland delivers e-prescription service
Scotland has announced that it has become the first country in the UK to deliver an electronic prescription service, with more than 90% of prescriptions now submitted electronically. Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon said the electronic Acute Medication Service (eAMS) was the first national system of its kind to go live anywhere in the UK […]
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Audit Scotland flags concerns with ECR
Scotland’s national audit body has raised concerns about the scope and quality of the country’s Emergency Care Summary. In its latest report on medicines management, Audit Scotland says that nine out of ten health boards have now implemented the ECR in Accident and Emergency departments. The ECR contains information from GP records and is intended to help staff […]
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Scottish LMCs demand action on IT choice
Scottish GPs have strongly criticised the delay in procuring a choice of GP IT systems and called for funding for the GPASS system to be released to NHS boards. Last week’s Scottish Local Medical Committees’ conference passed a motion stating that it “deplores the slow progress in procuring a choice of national IT systems following […]
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Scotland invests in telehealthcare
Scotland has launched its biggest telehealthcare project alongside 16 other e-health initiatives that will be backed by £1.6m of investment. NHS Lothian and the Scottish Government are to jointly fund a £700,000 large scale telehealth trial that will cover 400 patients with long term conditions, using Intel’s Health Guide. In addition, the government and Atos […]
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Half of Scottish prescriptions sent electronically
Over half of all NHS prescriptions issued in Scotland are now sent electronically, latest figures show. Since the start of electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) in Scotland in January 2008, 7.72 million prescriptions have been sent electronically. In July this figure reached 1.955 million — more than 50% of all the prescriptions issued. ETP is […]
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Scottish GPs to prescribe telephone therapy
The Scottish government has issued £3m funding for a three year pilot study on the effects of telephone and online-based cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). The funding will be spent on a pilot study with NHS 24, as well as a new self-help CD-Rom, part of the government’s new ‘Living Life To The Full’ initiative. GPs […]
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Scottish GPs to get choice of systems
The Scottish government is to set up a national framework contract for GP systems and launch a procurement for an IT system or systems to replace GPASS, according to its new e-health strategy. The plan means Scottish practices are likely to be brought under a Scottish version of England’s GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) agreement […]
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Scotland provides long-term funding for IT support staff
Scotland has announced long-term funding for IM&T facilitators to work with GPs, pharmacists and dentists. The Scottish government has agreed to provide recurring funding for the IM&T facilitators who will now be paid for via money provided direct to NHS boards. Previously the funding for IM&T facilitators for dentists and pharmacists were handled centrally. In […]
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Call for e-health to ‘permeate’ rural Scotland
E-health should permeate thinking about every aspect of remote and rural healthcare, according to a newly-published report on healthcare in remote areas of Scotland.
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