Opposition parties were critical of the timescale of the app’s rollout.<\/p>\n
Scottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane MSP called the app “half-baked” and asked for clarity on how it will be delivered.<\/p>\n
“After years of promising an NHS app, the SNP have still delivered a half-baked version,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We have repeatedly called for this to be rolled out to support patients and staff but instead the nationalists have been unable to do the basics and have squandered millions in the process.<\/p>\n
“Patients south of the border have been able to use an app for years. Yet in SNP-run Scotland we are still living in the analogue age while everyone else has moved onto digital.”<\/p>\n
Both Labour and Reform questioned the long roll-out time of the app.<\/p>\n
Labour’s Jackie Baillie said: “By the time this app is finally rolled out in full, the technology will already be obsolete.<\/p>\n
“The SNP has had two decades to modernise our NHS but we still have doctors relying on pagers, GPs using fax machines and an app that only works for one service in one health board.”<\/p>\n
Reform MSP Graham Simpson said the pace of the app’s rollout “raises serious concerns”. <\/p>\n
“A five-year timeline to deliver a digital front door to health and social care – starting with a limited pilot in Lanarkshire and only reaching fuller coverage by 2028 – is simply too slow given the urgency of improving access and efficiency across our health services,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We cannot afford to wait until 2030 for a service that is already long overdue.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition parties were critical of the timescale of the app’s rollout. Scottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-163267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}