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The NHS e-Referral Service (ERS) is an electronic referral system developed for the Health and Social Care Information Centre by IT consultancy BJSS. It is used by NHS England and it replaced the Choose and Book service on 15 June 2015. [ 1 ]
NHS Scotland, sometimes styled NHSScotland, is the publicly–funded healthcare system in Scotland and one of the four systems that make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It operates 14 territorial NHS boards across Scotland, supported by seven special non-geographic health boards, and Public Health Scotland.
The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 provides the legislative framework for the integration of health and social care in Scotland.. Ahead of the legislation coming into effect, an Integrated Resource Framework (IRF) was developed and tested, with HSCP models tested in four localities: Highland; Lothian; Ayrshire and Arran; and Tayside.
[7] [8] NHS 24 was established as a Special Health Board on 6 April 2001 [9] under the NHS 24 (Scotland) Order 2001, although the overall aims for Health Boards are defined by the NHS (Scotland) Act 1978 and subsequent legislation. [10] Management consultancy work that took place over an eight week period drew some comment. [11]
The team attend between 1 [1] and 3 [28] prehospital patient a day, delivering advanced medical management and other critical care interventions many of these patients. [29] In one study, 59.7% of patients received one of the following interventions; pre-hospital Blood transfusion, Chest drain insertion neuroprotective measures or Emergency ...
The Community Health Index is a register of all patients in NHS Scotland, Scotland's publicly funded healthcare system. The register exists to ensure that patients can be correctly identified, and that all information pertaining to a patient's health is available to providers of care. [6]
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is a public body and national health board of NHSScotland. Accountable to the Scottish Government , NSS works at the heart of Scotland’s health service, providing national strategic support services and expert advice to NHSScotland.
111 is a free-to-call single non-emergency number medical helpline operating in England, Scotland and Wales. The 111 phone service has replaced the various non-geographic 0845 rate numbers and is part of each country's National Health Service: in England the service is known as NHS 111; [1] in Scotland, NHS 24; [2] and in Wales, NHS 111 Wales.