NHS Sexual health service goes hi-tech

Mar 27 2008

NHS Lanarkshire this week became the first health board in Scotland to launch a new IT-based sexual health service.

The National IT System for Sexual Health (NaSH) went live in Motherwell and Blantyre Health Centres this week and it is the first step in developing an electronic sexual health record in Scotland.

All workers in the sexual health service will have access to a secure central computer system, which will contain the voluntary sexual health record of everyone who has used the service.

Patients will be able to access a central booking line to make appointments for this service and book evening clinics.

NaSH will allow both clinicians and patients to access individual records and results from any clinical centre point across the county. Overseen by NHS Scotland, it will eventually be used by all of Scotland’s 12 NHS Health Boards.

Anne McLellan, consultant in sexual health in Lanarkshire, said: “We are delighted to be the first Health Board in Scotland to go live with the new system. “We now expect to roll it out across the rest of our centres in Lanarkshire soon.”