£ 500k shame of NHS taxis
Anger over patient records
ensured all NHS boards have modern IT systems years ago. There is simply no excuse for this kind of ridiculous mismanagement in this day and age.
“Examples like this go some way to explaining why, under the SNP, our NHS has catastrophically long hospital and cancer waiting times.”
James Roberts, of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: “Taxpayers expect the health service to access the latest technologies, medicines and clinical innovations to get better outcomes for patients and value for money for the public purse.”
NHS Ayrshire and Arran said it was committed to providing high- quality healthcare as efficiently as possible. A statement said: “We recognised this was an inefficient system and began a process of reviewing and implementing a new electronic clinical portal, which is now operational.”