Northgate wins NHS information deal

THE Glasgow office of ICT company Northgate Managed Services has won a £6.5 million, five-year contract to manage a clinical portal service for a consortium of four NHS boards across Scotland.

The portal - covering NHS Lothian, Fife, Borders and Dumfries and Galloway - will use technology from US-based healthcare IT specialists Carefx which will work with Northgate to support the system.

It will provide access to patient information from a single browser, replacing the current system of disparate systems and paper records.