Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:56 pm on 31 January 2018.
Thank you for that answer, Cabinet Secretary. NHS Wales Informatics Service have just announced that the new contract for the GP clinical systems and services will be awarded to Vision Health Ltd and Microtest Ltd. This has caused concern for many GP practices that use systems provided by EMIS Health Ltd. GP practices have been told that EMIS Health Ltd did not meet a number of the necessary tender evaluation criteria and that EMIS practices will need to choose an alternative system. Cabinet Secretary, can you expand upon the reasons that EMIS Health Ltd was not successful at the tender stage? Is it related to the news that NHS Digital have imposed significant penalties in the order of millions of pounds for failing to meet contractual requirements of the GP Systems of Choice contract in England?