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2025 Winter Newsletter

2025 Winter Newsletter


A summary of our activities this year can be found in our winter newsletter.

Key highlights:

  • Beware of new phishing scam through MS Teams
  • NES + NSS forming new organisation
  • Correct SOAR helpdesk email
  • Ongoing SOAR issues
    • ROT
    • ROT form on old SOAR
    • MSF
    • Logging in (for first time since January)
    • CPD
    • Asterisk error messages
    • Saving / timing out issues
    • Uploading from OneDrive
    • Dealing with historic incomplete appraisals
  • New to medical appraisal in Scotland?
  • Scottish Referral Guidelines (SRGs) for Suspected Cancer
  • Helpdesk support will be available throughout the festive break during non-public holidays

A separate update for Appraisers, Appraisal Leads, ROs and Admin colleagues is available in part 2 of the newsletter.

Wishing you all a safe Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes.



This page was last updated on: 08/12/2025

2025 Winter Newsletter

Posted: 08/12/2025