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Annual Report

This report sets out our key activities, achievements and challenges during 2008/09.

NSS Annual Report 2008/2009

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Investigations Continue as Further Anthrax Death Announced

Laboratory results have confirmed a further case of anthrax infection, taking the number of confirmed cases in the current outbreak in Scotland to eighteen, of whom a total of nine individuals have now died.

29 January 2010

New Patient Information System for NHS Scotland

Nurses and doctors are set to get easier and quicker access to patients' records with the signing of a contract for a new national patient information system today.

29 January 2010

Fighting resistant infections

Scotland's first national report combining information on antimicrobial use and resistance highlights the need to act now to limit the spread of resistant organisms.

26 January 2010

C.diff and MRSA rates at record low

Rates of both C.diff and MRSA in Scottish hospitals are at their lowest since records began.

07 January 2010

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Working at the very heart of the health service, we deliver services critical to frontline patient care and in support of the efficient and effective operation of NHS Scotland.

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