National Out Of Hours Systems

The Clinical Patient Management (more commonly known as Adastra) software allows clinicians to provide vital out of hours [OOH] unscheduled care remotely by accessing patient records and integrating with prescribing and emergency services whilst local GP services are closed. This new contract consolidates thirteen NHS Board contracts under one contract with NSS. This software is provided to the OOH services of NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland, and NHS Western Isles under NHS Highland's contract and NSS contracts on behalf of Police Custody. NHS 24 contracts for concentrators that are messaging servers between NHS 24 and the Board Adastra instances and do not require a database. The twelve Adastra databases will be moved into a single database instance. This allows upgrades and fixes to be delivered for all more easily and provides cost avoidance savings over the five years of the proposed new contract.