Posts from September 2020
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Dental practice action - required update for public certificates
There are some changes coming for public certificates for dental practices (renewing ePractitioner verification certificates for patient search) which need to be carried out by practices by 13 October 2020. After this date, if the new certificate has not been installed on local practice management systems, practices will no longer be able to retrieve patient details in response to a patient details request.
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The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife - Mary Morgan
2020 has been a year of challenges for our nurses and midwifes. Given that it has been designated The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, we want keep celebrating the importance of their roles and thank them for the extraordinary work they are doing. This month we spoke to Mary Morgan, Director of Strategy, Performance and Service Transformation in order to know a bit more about her role and her perspective regarding the challenges nurses have been facing during the pandemic.
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NSS partners with Mail Force to secure COVID-19 testing machines for island boards
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) recently worked in partnership with a charity, Mail Force, to secure cutting-edge COVID-19 testing machines for Scotland’s three island NHS boards.