eHealth Strategy 2011-2017 (Revised July 2012 to include a Sixth Strategic Aim)

Footnotes

1. Quality Strategy - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/05/10102307/8

2. www.sct.scot.nhs.uk/strategy.html

3. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/04/20142935/1

4. http://www.ehealth.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/documents/mobile-data-protection-standard-pdf3.pdf

5. www.ehealth.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/documents/nhs-code-of-practice-on-protecting-patient-confidentiality.pdf

6. http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/media/584116/information_governance_in_nhsscotland_competency_framework.pdf

7. http://aomrc.org.uk/publications/reports-a-guidance/doc_details/9403-ehealth-competency-framework-defining-the-role-of-the-expert-clinician.html

8. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2011/06/21092355

9. A shadow year is necessary as Boards' LDPs for 2011-12 were signed off by NHS Boards and the Scottish Government by 31 March 2011

10. http://www.ehealth.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/documents/architecture-principles.pdf

11. NHSScotland Efficiency and Productivity: Framework for SR10 2011-2015

12. The World Health Organisation defines a healthcare worker as anyone whose focus or activity is to improve health. This definition includes providers (e.g., doctors, nurses and midwives) as well as technicians and managers

13. Although the savings delivered through online transactions vary according to the nature of the transaction, one report has estimated the average cost to be £0.08, a opposed to £10.53 for a face-to-face transaction, £3.39 for telephone transaction and £12.10 for a postal transaction. See McNish J, Customer Contact Profiling Report- ESD Toolkit, Aston Campbell Associates 2008, www.esd.org.uk/Esdtoolkit/Documents.ashx?doc=61149, cited in The Champion for Digital Inclusion, The Economic Case for Digital Inclusion, October 2009, http://www.parliamentandinternet.org.uk/uploads/Final_report.pdf, p46

14.www.nhs24.com <http://www.nhs24.com/>

15. Wallwiener et al (2009) "Impact of electronic messaging on the patient-physician interaction", Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, vol 15: 243-2

16. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/care/reshaping

17. Telecare to 2012: An Action Plan for Scotland (2011) www.jitscotland.org.uk/action-areas/telecare-in-scotland/

18. Telecare to 2012: An Action Plan for Scotland (2011) www.jitscotland.org.uk/action-areas/telecare-in-scotland/

19. Empirica/WRC (2008) ICT & Ageing: European Study on Users, Markets and Technologies
http://www.ict-ageing.eu/?page_id=1310

20. www.sctt.scot.nhs.uk/

21. Quality Strategy - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/05/10102307/8

22. Equality Act 2010 - http://www.equalities.gov.uk/equality_act_2010.aspx

23. The EHRC has produced Interim advice for Scotland available at
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/scotland/public-sector-equality-duty/interim-advice-on-the-equality-act-scottish-specific-duties/.

24. These actions and provisions have been grouped into 3 categories: those considered essential (List A); those relating to patient presences (List B); and those that we would expect to be delivered through normal NHSScotland provision but that healthcare workers may prefer to be altered to (List)

25. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Scotland/NHSQuality/QAB

26. http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/publicAudit/or-09/pau09-0902.htm

27. www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/docs/health/2009/nr_090416_managing_meds.pdf