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NHS Lothian GUM Clinic Frees Nurses' Time, and Improves Patient Care Using the Telephonetics VIP Result Solution
White Paper The GUM clinic needed to be able to offer a telephone option for obtaining results but streamline the patients' experience when collecting test results and move away from the routine of calling at specific times when nursing staff manned... [30 Dec 2008]
End of data losses no loss to NHS Lothian
News Inspired by a recent data loss, NHS Lothian has signed a deal with security outfit Lumension to encrypt its data. After a member of staff broke data guidelines by using a personal memory stick to carry patient details,... [05 Nov 2008]
Leader: Laptop theft is everybody's problem
Leader Laptop theft is increasing across the country - from Devon and Cornwall to Lothian and Borders - and is growing at a greater rate than laptop sales. In the past week silicon.com has published a series of articles... [21 May 2007]
Exclusive: How safe is your laptop?
News Lothian & Borders (31.5%) Bedfordshire witnessed a 35 per cent increase, while Lothian and Borders, which includes Edinburgh, saw a 31 per cent increase. The results displayed are: Devon & Cornwall... [08 May 2007]
Boys in blue caught looking at blue sites
News Especially if you're a Lothian and Borders police officer and your PC is about to be audited by your bosses. Isn't the internet great? All that information at your fingertips. A world of knowledge waiting to be discovered. [11 Mar 2004]
Scottish schools ban camera phones
News Primary and secondary schools in the West Lothian area of Scotland have banned pupils from bringing camera phones into school. The move, which will affect camera-phone owners among the 30,000 children in 77 schools in... [03 Mar 2004]
Car parking gets mobile phone pay and display
News However, a spokeswoman for the Lothian and Borders police service said "it's not a great concern", conceding that "we know people are going to use their mobile phones out on the streets anyway" regardless of high profile... [03 Nov 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.09.03
Round-Up A police investigation is currently underway in Scotland looking into how some unsavoury material found its way onto the computers of officers in the Lothian and Borders police force. Anybody who watched 'The Curse of... [12 Sep 2003]
Things not so fab at NEC plant
News Chipmaker NEC is to halt production at its plant in West Lothian, Scotland, in response to falling demand. The move will mean over 1,260 redundancies, following a previous cutback of 600 jobs worldwide announced earlier... [18 Dec 2001]
Motorola jobless thrown £10m lifeline
News The team working with the government includes the Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian, Employment Service, West Lothian Council, the Careers Service, Benefits Agency and the Scottish Trade Union... [26 Apr 2001]
Government demands Motorola repays £16m 'sustained' development loan
News The mobile phone company cited the US downturn and global decline in mobile phone sales as justification for its proposal to shut the West Lothian plant. Scottish Minister for enterprise Wendy Alexander said she was... [25 Apr 2001]
Motorola branded callous over Bathgate
News The future of the West Lothian facility has been in doubt for some weeks following the release of Motorola's poor first quarter figures. The company has been accused of ignoring the needs of its workforce while it... [24 Apr 2001]
Stockwatch Daily: Confused markets show promise
News The company may be forced to close its 3,000 man Bathgate plant in West Lothian. While London technology companies were broadly up, other European exchanges fluctuated around the evens mark. The FTSE TechMARK index rose... [11 Apr 2001]
Motorola piles on misery for Scottish workers
News The news marks the latest stage in the company's crumbling fortunes - it recently announced 4,000 worldwide job losses bringing total redundancies to 22,000. According to the Edinburgh Evening News, the Bathgate facility is the area's... [10 Apr 2001]
Sun steps up Scottish plant activity
News Sun Microsystems has been given the go ahead to build a £25m extension to its West Lothian plant and create 200 new jobs. Planning permission has been received from West Lothian Council for the 140,000... [16 Aug 2000]
