News and Features

• Colin Cram
• 20 September 2018
• Posted in: Healthcare, Science & Technology

Health and social care services and the way people interact with the NHS are being transformed through digital technology. It will enable people to have access to specialist healthcare and monitoring in their own home or care home. It will result in fewer hospital beds being required. Some services now provided by GPs will be provided from specialist centres. Some services provided by hospitals will be provided by GPs. People will be able to book their own appointments and video consultations wi…

• Alan Hunter
• 20 September 2018
• Posted in: Healthcare

In Scotland we recognise that planning for urgent care, while it needs dedicated focus and expertise, cannot take place in isolation from planning for both elective and longer term care needs.  This is why we created the Unscheduled Care 6 Essential Actions (6EA) Programme three and a half years ago.  A key component of the 6EA Programme is effective and integrated elective and emergency demand and capacity planning.  Since its introduction, performance stabilised and improved against similar he…

• Julie Snell
• 05 September 2018
• Posted in: Science & Technology, Planning & Development

Over the last few years, we have seen significant research, development and trials in the Smart City arena with some reaching live implementation. Apart from a relatively small number of exceptions, we are still to achieve significant scale and roll out of solutions that are really changing citizens lives at the grass roots level.

We have learnt so much about how technology can help us make a step change in the way we provide city services, protect and improve people’s lives, but we continue to…