Video Enabled Health and Care
Near Me
Near Me is a secure form of video consulting approved for use by the Scottish Government and NHS Scotland. For more information visit the Near Me Website
Given the prioritisation of scale up of video consulting for coronavirus resilience, the team from Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Medical Sciences Division, currently evaluating the Near Me programme across Scotland has prepared a report, available here:
Near Me Guides
Guides to Implementing Near Me.
Guidance confirming acceptability of using own device for Near Me
Video Consulting
Training resources on remote consulting are now available via NHS Education for Scotland: https://learn.nes.nhs.scot/28943/coronavirus-covid-19/remote-consulting
Video consulting for GPs (infographic guide produced by University of Oxford, with input from Near Me, and published by RCGP): https://elearning.rcgp.org.uk/pluginfile.php/148915/mod_resource/content/3/NHS_VC_Info%20for%20GPs_v06.pdf
Remote consulting guidance from the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS): https://www.mddus.com/en/Resources/Resource%20library/Risk%20alerts/2020/March/Remote%20consulting%20in%20the%20coronavirus%20outbreak
BMJ: COVID-19
How to do a remote clinical assessment in primary care
Video Consultations (editorial)