Category: Health & Social Care

A new digital platform is aiming to slash the waiting times for occupational therapy in Moray – by automating the triage process before patients take their next clinical steps. Open...

A new digital platform is being launched to boost NHS volunteer numbers in Scotland following a post-pandemic decline in people signing up to help local communities. The ‘volunteer management system’...

A new digital self-service system at a Lanarkshire hospital has been unveiled in a bid to enhance patient experience and reduce unnecessary delays. The ‘e-triage’ system at University Hospital Monklands...

A new blood test paired with a smartphone app could speed up the detection of disease in remote communities – thanks to scientific research developed in Dundee. Researchers at Abertay...

A technology company has entered a ‘landmark partnership’ with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to build the ‘virtual hospital of the future’. Doccla, which provides remote and continuous patient monitoring...

Scotland’s health secretary has praised a crack team of medics set up to ease hospital pressures and shift more care into the community in Lanarkshire. Neil Gray has congratulated an...

A Scottish health board is joining a university-led research network in a bid to leverage new technologies to improve dementia care. NHS Forth Valley is to become part of a...

Groundworks have started for the first phase of construction for Scotland’s ‘first’ digital hospital – which is set to open in 2031. University Hospital Monklands, located in Wester Moffat in...

Scotland’s health secretary was given a virtual reality ‘immersive experience’ of what will become the country’s most advanced new hospital. Clinicians and officials guided Neil Gray round a specially-constructed digital...

A national digital weight management programme will support people in Scotland with type 2 diabetes thanks to a £4.5 million funding boost from government. The programme will support 3,000 people...