{"id":874,"date":"2017-08-28T21:58:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T20:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssn-dev.scot.nhs.uk\/?page_id=874"},"modified":"2024-06-03T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:02:07","slug":"scotland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/shpbn\/patients-carers\/useful-links\/scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NHS inform<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/illnesses-and-conditions\/cancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NHS inform<\/a> is the national health information service, providing a co-ordinated approach and a single source of quality assured health information for the public in Scotland. Cancer information and advice on living with cancer is available by cancer type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">North Cancer Alliance (NCA)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsscotlandnorth.scot\/nca\">North Cancer Alliance (NCA)<\/a> is the regional network that aims to improve cancer care for people living in the north of Scotland. It incorporates NHS Tayside, NHS Highland, NHS Grampian, NHS Western Isles, NHS Orkney and NHS Shetland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">South East Scotland Cancer Network (SCAN)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scan.scot.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South East Scotland Cancer Network (SCAN)<\/a> website provides a \u2018one stop shop\u2019 for cancer information, with details of local services in South East Scotland and links to national cancer websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">West of Scotland Cancer Network (WoSCAN)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woscan.scot.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">West of Scotland Cancer Network (WoSCAN)<\/a> is a collaborative embracing the four NHS Health Boards in the West of Scotland: Ayrshire and Arran, Forth Valley, Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Lanarkshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NHS Chief Scientist Office<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cso.scot.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NHS Chief Scientist Office<\/a> is part of the Scottish Government Health Directorates and it\u2019s vision is to support and increase the level of high-quality health research conducted in Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Managed Service Network for Children &amp; Young People with cancer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngcancer.scot.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Managed Service Network for Children &amp; Young People with cancer<\/a> is the national network of healthcare professionals from all territorial NHS Boards in Scotland; staff work collectively to provide safe, world class, cancer care for children and young people aged 0 \u2013 24 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">NHS inform NHS inform is the national health information service, providing a co-ordinated approach and a single source of quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":3600,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-874","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/shpbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/shpbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/shpbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/shpbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/shpbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/shpbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/shpbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874\/revisions\/3912"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/shpbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/shpbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}