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Ophthalmology Waiting List – Waiting List Validation – 27 August 2024

Last year NHS Scotland introduced a text message service to ensure our patient waiting lists were up to date and […]

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Chief Executive Fortnightly Blog to NHS Orkney Staff – 19 August 2024

Message for All NHS Orkney Staff  Hi All Today is my first day back after a week of leave, which […]

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Chief Executive Fortnightly Blog to NHS Orkney Staff – 5 August 2024

Message for All NHS Orkney Staff  Morning all I hope everyone is enjoying this better weather and that you have […]

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HENRY launches in Orkney

NHS Orkney are now working together with Home-Start Orkney to deliver “HENRY Healthy Families: Right from the Start” programmes right […]

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The Balfour Switchboard Brief Downtime

The Balfour Switchboard Brief Downtime – Monday 5th August Please be aware there is a planned communication outage to The […]

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Cabinet Secretary visits NHS Orkney and thanks staff

Today we welcomed the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care, Mr Neil Gray, MSP to Orkney, to […]

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Monday 12 August 2024 – Public Holiday Arrangements

Monday 12 August is a Public Holiday for NHS Orkney. All GP surgeries will be closed on the Public Holiday, […]

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Chief Executive Fortnightly Blog to NHS Orkney Staff – 22 July 2024

Message for All NHS Orkney Staff  Hi All I’m pleased that after a few weeks where it has felt pretty […]

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Covid and Respiratory illness reminder – 22 July 2024

Covid remains in circulation in our community and NHS Orkney Health Protection team are asking the community to continue to […]

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Global IT Outage – 19 July 2024

Debs Crohn Head of Improvement and Digital Services at NHS Orkney said “We are aware of the current global IT outage […]