Category: News

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]