Patient Safety
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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.
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.