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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 […]

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How we’re doing: our Quarter 1 (April-June) Corporate Strategy progress update

When we launched our new Corporate Strategy earlier this year, we committed to keeping our patients, community, partners and staff […]

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Older adults in Orkney encouraged to look out for appointment letters landing as new vaccination offered to protect against RSV

With Scotland’s Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccination programme set to begin later this summer, NHS Orkney and Public Health Scotland (PHS) […]

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An update on the Daisy Villa GP Surgery

Updated statement issued 18 July 2024 As a further update, please see an additional statement from John Daniels below. “Sometimes […]

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Chief Executive Fortnightly Blog to NHS Orkney Staff – 8 July 2024

Message for All NHS Orkney Staff  Dear Team Orkney In this week’s blog I focus on: We’re mid-way through Wimbledon […]

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NHS Orkney staff celebrate 431 years of service (between them) to the NHS at our first Long Service Awards Afternoon Tea

Yesterday we recognised and celebrated 10 staff who, in 2024, mark 40-50 years’ service to NHS Orkney and the NHS […]