NHS National Services Scotland has agreed a remobilisation plan with Scottish Government as part of our continuing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a national NHS board operating at the heart of NHSScotland, we’ve been well placed to support the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic across a wide range of areas.
Our National Procurement team has significantly grown its national distribution network during Scotland’s COVID-19 response – enabling us to rapidly extend PPE distribution to Scotland’s health and social care sector.
We’re working in partnership with the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise and other partners to strengthen Scotland’s supply chain resilience. By developing new and existing supply chains, we’ve helped to increase the volume of supplies, including PPE, being manufactured in Scotland and the amount being supplied from abroad.
We’ve worked in partnership with the Scottish Government, the UK Government, Public Health Scotland, NHSScotland laboratories, the Scottish Microbiology and Virology Network, academia and industry, providing the necessary specialist advice, knowledge and expertise to rapidly increase testing capacity for COVID-19.
Our Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) team has been part of UK-wide clinical trials collecting plasma from donors who have recovered from COVID-19, known as ‘convalescent plasma’, as a potential treatment for COVID-19 patients.
We responded quickly to help safeguard Scotland’s NHS during the COVID-19 outbreak, building the NHS Louisa Jordan hospital in a matter of weeks and ensuring it was ready to meet Scotland’s needs.
Our Digital and Security team has provided crucial digital solutions to support the fight against COVID-19, right across NHSScotland and beyond.
Our work coordinating Scotland’s national health screening programmes has played an important role in managing the temporary pause of these at the end of March 2020, as well as the work to restart screening safely.
Our Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) team has adapted quickly to ensure that blood, tissues and cells are available when patients need them, across Scotland.
NHS National Services Scotland has agreed a remobilisation plan with Scottish Government as part of our continuing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the fight against coronavirus, contact tracing is vital to break the chains of transmission. We’ve established Scotland’s National Contact Tracing Centre (NCTC), a key part of delivering Test and Protect.
Our Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI) Scotland team reacted swiftly to develop COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidance for health and social care settings, provide expert advice to support other sectors, and provide vital support to health boards across Scotland. They’ve also provided the scientific evidence base that’s so critical for developing evidence-based national COVID-19 policy and guidance.
