Blog / News
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Accelerating technology enabled care during COVID-19
Near Me is a free and confidential web-based technology from Attend Anywhere that helps health and social care providers offer video consulting to people.
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The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife- Anne-Marie Carr
Recognising the amazing job our nurses and midwifes do and coinciding with the ‘Year of the Nurse and the Midwife’, this month we have talked to Anne-Marie Carr, Head of Nursing for Patient Services and Tissues, Cells and Advanced Therapeutics (TCAT), about her experience and how COVID-19 has changed her role.
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NSS sponsors CivTech testing innovation challenge
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is sponsoring a CivTech challenge that invites businesses to provide innovative solutions to further accelerate and strengthen Scotland’s testing capability within the Test and Protect programme.
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Supporting COVID-19 testing capacity in Scotland
NSS is supporting partners across NHSScotland in many ways during the current outbreak. View our video on how we’re working with partners to deliver coronavirus (COVID-19) testing capacity to help save lives and protect the health of the people of Scotland.
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Enabling COVID-19 testing advancements
NHS National Services Scotland is working in partnership with Scottish biotech firm E&O Laboratories Limited to enable a new COVID-19 testing advancement for NHSScotland.
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Health Facilities Scotland supporting NHS Louisa Jordan
The HFS Equipping Team continue to support the NHS Louisa Jordan to help health service recovery.
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Glasgow Blood Donor Centre - appointments cancelled today (26 June 2020)
All appointments at Glasgow Donor Centre have been cancelled for the rest of the today (Friday 26 June 2020) due to an incident in the city centre. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Supporting Scotland’s community optometrists
On Thursday 18 June, the First Minister announced Scotland’s move into Phase 2 of its recovery plan. Among many things, this enables community optometrists across Scotland to re-open and provide face-to-face NHS emergency and essential eye care. Our National Procurement and Practitioner Services teams have been helping the optometry community to respond to the changing situation.
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New convalescent plasma collection method launched
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) has introduced a new way of collecting convalescent plasma from donors called plasmapheresis.
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New warehouse storing vital PPE and medical equipment
To further strengthen our response to the COVID- 19 pandemic, NSS National Procurement have turned a 120,000sq. ft. facility into a fully operational warehouse in just four weeks. The warehouse now stores critical medical equipment along with essential clinical supplies all vital in maintaining Scotland’s PPE supply and supporting national demand.
