"Getting our information"

Thank you for getting in touch, we very much appreciate you taking the time to share your experience on this.

I can confirm that the NHS England app was developed to support NHS Trusts in England. NHS Scotland opted to take a slightly different, but also tailored approach, in how we best support health and care for the people in Scotland. Part of this approach has meant that this specific functionality is not yet available in Scotland.

However, the Scottish Government is well aware that citizens and staff are seeking technological solutions that enable easy access, save valuable time and support decision making. Therefore, I can confirm that as part of our current approach we are delivering the Digital Front Door, a programme which will support the rapid growth in the use of digital channels as well as help citizens access health and care services online.

This also acts as a direct response to the SNP Manifesto Commitment to develop a ‘myNHS’ app, albeit across health & social care as a whole. The programme is a key deliverable within our Digital Health & Care Strategy, published in October 2021. You can read more about this here - https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-digital-health-care-strategy/pages/1/

While this work is at an early stage, I can also confirm that we are taking citizen’s accessibility to their own medical records very seriously. We anticipate that this approach will also allow citizen’s to access their own medical records and test results online.

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1. Have your say on how health and care data should be accessed, shared and managed. Formal consultation on the Data Strategy for Health and Social Care open for submissions until the 12th August: https://consult.gov.scot/digital-health/data-strategy-for-health-and-social-care @DigiCare4Scot

2. Are you interested in how your health and care data is accessed, shared and managed? Share your views via the formal consultation on the Data Strategy for Health and Social Care, open until 12th August 2022: https://consult.gov.scot/digital-health/data-strategy-for-health-and-social-care @DigiCare4Scot

3. Formal consultation on Scotland’s first dedicated Data Strategy for Health and Social Care now live! @DigiCare4Scot are keen to hear your views on health and care data, please submit comments: https://consult.gov.scot/digital-health/data-strategy-for-health-and-social-care

Dear RibsSchmibs

I can see that Caitlin has responded to your query and I hope you found this information useful.

Kind Regards

Nicole