To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS boards currently use the system, TrakCare; in which clinical services they use the system, and how many staff are employed to maintain the system.
TrakCare is used as the main patient management system by 13 Health Boards:
- NHS Ayrshire and Arran;
- NHS Borders;
- NHS Fife;
- NHS Forth Valley;
- NHS Great Glasgow and Clyde;
- NHS Grampian;
- Golden Jubilee National Hospital;
- NHS Highland;
- NHS Lanarkshire;
- NHS Lothian;
- NHS Orkney;
- NHS Shetland; and
- NHS Tayside.
All 13 Health Boards use TrakCare for waiting lists, Outpatients and inpatients, clinical coding, national Scottish Morbidity Records and new ways returns. Various Boards also use TrakCare for Emergency Departments, maternity services, mental health, community services, radiology, and theatres.
In addition, the system supports order request functionality for the service departments to manage the provision of laboratory, X-ray and diagnostic services; and Allied Health Professionals, observations, and clinical data recoding in clinical forms to varying degrees.
The Scottish Government does not collate or hold information on how many staff the Health Boards employ to maintain TrakCare.