NHS Scotland is expanding its use of Seer 2, a data and analytics platform that will aim to help improve collaboration and innovation across Scotland’s health and social care system.

Seer is a platform that allows staff to more easily access and analyse data, helping clinicians, teams, and boards in decision-making around patient care and the planning of resources.

Areas in which it is currently used include cancer intelligence, the monitoring of blood stocks and the flu vaccination programme.

Seer 2 is the next phase, which utilises cloud technology and will give the health and social care workforce access to a more advanced version, increasing opportunities to access new tools and technologies with greater flexibility.

Areas in which it is currently used include cancer intelligence, the monitoring of blood stocks and the flu vaccination programme.

These features have already been used to create new dashboards to help manage capacity during winter.

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Speaking at the Digital Health and Care Scotland Conference 2024, health secretary Neil Gray also confirmed the Scottish Government will provide an update on Scotland’s first Data Strategy this spring – with an updated Delivery Plan for the Digital Health and Care Strategy to be published in April.

“NHS Scotland is growing opportunities to use digital and technology-driven services to enhance health and social care,” Gray said.

“Better use of data and digital technology is critical to how we drive improvements in healthcare and is a key part of our plans to reform services.

“Through enhancing our use of technology, we can unlock opportunities for collaboration across health boards and other organisations, and it is therefore vital that this includes maximisation of digital and far better, and far faster, use of data.

“It’s great to see how world leading Seer 2 is enabling us to support collaboration and innovation across government and the NHS, providing near real time intelligence to support decision making, build new insights and enable better outcomes.

“This platform is just one of the ways we are embracing tech to help us as we face challenges ahead in funding pressures, inequalities and workforce.”