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The Scottish Executive is setting up a 24 hour help line for people to report concerns about vulnerable children.
The Scottish Parliament is to debate a proposal to set up an electronic patient record system in a session on 9 June 2005.
A report submitted to the parliament on modernising Scotland's NHS recommends that an electronic health record be set up within three years. It calls on the Executive to purchase an off the shelf system rather than developing something specific to Scotland.
The Scottish Executive has promised to provide affordable broadband to those communities in Scotland without access by the end of 2005, it was announced on 25 April 2005.