Thereare a number of such examples including:a computer system which supportsclinical terminology and coding systems;the national (UK) drug dictionaryused in our e-Pharmacy programme;a financial computersystems framework which was negotiated by Scotland and hasbeen heavily used by NHS England;the contract forNHS24’s patient management system which is a variation to the contract negotiatedby England;enterprise softwarelicences have been purchased under contracts which were negotiated by NHS Englandand varied to suit Scottish circumstances;servers to providecentral and local archive facilities for our picture archive and communicationssystem.NHS Scotland communications servicesare underpinned by the N3 broadband telecommunications contract which is a UK NHScontract providing secure private network facilities and the separate NHSMail contractproviding secure email facilities to all NHS staff across the UK.On other related matters we havecollaborated to mutual benefit with other health departments on information standards,and clinical terminology, coding and messaging standards.