
The Challenge
As the publicly-funded healthcare system in Scotland and one of the four systems comprising the UK National Health Service, NHS Scotland operates 14 territorial boards, seven non-geographic health boards and Public Health Scotland.
NHS Research Scotland (NRS) is a partnership of Scottish NHS Boards and the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government, working to ensure NHS Scotland provides the best environment to support clinical research. They operate a full spectrum of around 1,500 clinical trials at any one time, with around 35-40K recruits per year.
Their key challenge was the lack of a centralised and united data source for all clinical research taking place in Scotland.