This website was built by the NHS Education for Scotland digital team.
NES is a special health board within NHS Scotland. Our responsibility is developing and delivering education and training for the health and social care workforce. We are also the lead body for digital development in health and social care.
NES was set up by the NHS Education for Scotland statutory order, (2002, no. 103).
Please visit the NHS Education for Scotland website to view the organisation's general privacy policy:
What types of personal information are collected
On this website we process the following categories of personal data:
- Name
- Telephone
- E-mail address
- Details of enquiry
In the NES main privacy notice you can find information on your rights and on our legal basis for processing personal data. The notice also gives the contact details for our Data Protection Officer.
Use of Cookies on NES websites
A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. This NES site uses various types of cookie. These cookies are used to make our websites run more efficiently. They also allow our web server to remember and store your preferences as you travel around our pages.
Strictly necessary cookies (*) enable core functionality, allowing you to move around the website and use its features. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. They can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
The table below describes the use of cookies on the SDPBRN website.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARRAffinity | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | Session | Necessary |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | Session | Necessary |
| CookieControl | Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consentbox will not be presented again upon re-entry. | 3 months | Necessary |
| _ga | Google Analytics to store and count pageviews. |
2 years | Statistics |
| _ga_<container-id> | Google Analytics - Used to persist session state. | 2 years | Statistics |