Blog / News
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Furthering support for Scottish businesses
NSS National Procurement’s latest order with Dumfriesshire-based Alpha Solway will secure a sustainable Scottish supply of PPE masks and visors until summer 2021.
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Stonehaven train derailment
NHS National Services Scotland, and our Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) colleagues, would like to thank all donors and the public for their support at this difficult time. We would also like to reassure all blood donors that hospitals in Scotland are well supplied with blood.
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New NHS report could transform stoma care for thousands across Scotland
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) has today (11 August 2020) released the National Stoma Quality Improvement Group (NSQIG) Report. The group was commissioned by the Scottish Executive Nurse Director Group (SEND) and has been endorsed by Scotland's Chief Nursing Officer Fiona McQueen and Chief Pharmaceutical Officer Rose Marie Parr.
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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 day today (Friday 26 June 2020) due to an incident in the city centre. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
