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The Billion-Pound Question Wales Cannot Afford to Get Wrong

Wales is about to decide how 3.2 million patients' health records will work for a generation. Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) — the organisation tasked with delivering it — has failed at everything it has attempted. England has 39 million on its NHS App. Northern Ireland deployed Epic across all 5 trusts. Wales: two reports in nine months.

31 March 2026

No Plan B: The Failing Organisation That Controls Every Hospital, GP Surgery, and Cancer Unit in Wales

Every time your GP refers you to hospital, the data travels through a DHCW system. Every time a nurse checks your medication, she reads a DHCW screen. This is the story of what failure means for the 3.2 million people in Wales whose healthcare depends on systems controlled by a single organisation the government says is failing.

27 March 2026
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The Problem

  • What Is DHCW?
  • What We Have Found
  • The Scale of Failure
  • Leadership Analysis

The Evidence

  • Financial Waste
  • Patient Safety
  • Toxic Culture
  • Nepotism & Empire-Building
  • Misconduct in Public Office
  • Timeline of Events

Accountability Gap

  • What They Said
  • What They Don't Publish
  • The Ghost Directors
  • The Shadow Workforce

Our Solution

  • Governance
  • Leadership & Talent
  • Programme Delivery
  • Technical Strategy
  • Culture
  • Benchmarking
  • Implementation Roadmap

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  • FOI Tracker

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