Doctors welcome 'digital' advances

Monday, 5 September 2016 at 00:00

Efforts to make Noble's Hospital 'digital' are being welcomed by medical staff on the Island.

The Department of Health and Social Care has pledged to go paperless by the end of 2018 - with around 100,000 medical records being digitised:

Linked to this will be a number of other digital improvements including the streamlining and reporting of test requests and results and an automated digital prescribing system.

Gregor Peden is a doctor in A and E - he says patients will benefit from the technological advances:

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