The Scottish Government Near Me programme aims to provide the people of Scotland the choice to attend health, care and other appointments via video call where appropriate.
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This checklist is designed to help you when supporting a caller in a test call prior to a consultation or a group starting.
If you want to see someone immediately, perhaps moving up from a telephone consultation, you can use the Consult Now feature. If Consult Now is turned on for the waiting area, you will see a separate tab. From here you can invite a caller to join you, this sends a link via email or text to the caller. With just a few clicks they are brought directly into the video call with you bypassing the normal waiting area.
This document is intended principally but not exclusively for Physicians working with patients with Neurological conditions. It considers the value of Near Me Video Consulting, Video Conferencing and V-create in supporting the examination and management of patients.
Near Me Groups (beta) Release Note
13th December 2021
The beta version of Near Me Groups is now available and Group Consultation Waiting Areas can now be created.
A successful small scale pilot by NHS Ayrshire and Arran in 2019 tested Near Me for patients referred for swallowing assessment. This was quickly mainstreamed and also enabled scale up during Covid-19. The poster sets out the benefits, key learning, progress to date and next steps.
Near Me is a free an on-line video appointment service for health and care. Since Covid-19 it has been used to deliver over one million appointments. An Independent Evaluation 2021 (available here) recommended ongoing, peer support and training.
This guidance summarises the consent required to take part in a video consultation for adults with incapacity. It includes information on assessment of capacity to consent and best practice.
This guidance summarises the consent required to take part in a video consultation. It includes information on types of consent, the consent process, who is responsible for obtaining consent and how to obtain consent.
This webinar is an opportunity to hear from clinicians using Near Me in Neurology.
Resource pack and Q&A are below.