Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:55 pm on 31 January 2018.
Diolch, Llywydd. Minister, last week a widespread failure in the NHS IT systems caused chaos for GP practices and hospitals across the country, with many GPs reporting that they were unable to access patient records. One GP described the situation as very frustrating and rather dangerous. Hospitals were unable to access test results and one patient was told he would have to wait another month for the results of a biopsy due to the backlog caused by the systems failure. I hope you will agree with me that this is totally unacceptable. Cabinet Secretary, can you update us further on the reasons for this outage, and what lessons, if any, have been learnt?