Mr Marc Beswick

National Lead - Near Me Network
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Scottish Government
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United Kingdom

Marc is the National Lead for the Near Me Network in Scotland. Prior to his current role Marc was an Allied Health Professions Practice Education Lead and Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist in Shetland where he used Near Me (Attend Anywhere) clinically to provide remote services to children & families by video. As the COVID 19 pandemic took hold he supported staff and patients in their use of Near Me to enable the continuity of services to remote island communities. Marc was then part of a team who created digital resources and ran webinars to enable wider health services across Scotland to use Near Me at pace and scale.  

Marc was then seconded into the Near Me Network as the National Lead to further roll out and embed Near Me within all areas of Health, Social Care and the Voluntary sector. He is currently leading on the implimentation and scale up of video group consultations across Scotland using Near Me.

For more information on using Near Me video technologies visit  https://tec.scot/nearme/