Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:58 pm on 31 January 2018.
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. Whatever the reasons for the decision against EMIS Health Ltd, this affects many GP practices across Wales who have been using the EMIS system for many years. The Royal College of General Practitioners are concerned that this will have a detrimental impact on both GPs and patients due to the scale of the changes needed to move to a new system. There are fears that this could risk pushing older GPs to an earlier retirement. Cabinet Secretary, how do you plan to address the concerns that an already overstretched profession does not have the time or resources to move to a new IT system, and are you confident that the new systems provided by Vision and Microtest are robust enough to prevent failures like we saw last Wednesday?