“There’s an operational issue somewhere that someone needs to sort out.”
The booking and appointments system in Scotland is overseen by NHS National Services Scotland who who have outsourced it to Californian IT giant ServiceNow.
In England - which uses a British contractor, System C - people are being invited by age group to book their own vaccinations, while in their own vaccinations, while in Scotland patients are mostly sent appointment letters.
The Herald understands that, from Monday, staff on Scotland’s national Covid helpline will be allowed for the first time to make bookings directly for missed patients following repeated complaints that people were being passed “from pillar to post”.