Digital Systems in the Welsh NHS

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 3:17 pm on 7 July 2021.

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Photo of Vikki Howells Vikki Howells Labour 3:17, 7 July 2021

Thank you, Minister, for that answer. I'm sure that you know that, for many years now, IT workarounds have been devised by practitioners within the NHS, such as a bespoke app that two GPs in my constituency are developing with a local company. This particular app will enable patients to access their records, better medicate their own conditions and order repeat prescriptions, whilst also empowering the GPs to push out public health information. How are you, Minister, ensuring, though, that the NHS Wales Informatics Service has oversight of these kind of workarounds and is able to extrapolate best practice and then embed this into their 'once for Wales' approach?