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DHCW blocked this site from NHS networks. That means the people who most need to see this evidence cannot access it at work. You can fix that.

DHCW Blocked This Site. You Can Get Around That.

Digital Health and Care Wales has blocked carenhs.org from every device on the NHS Wales network. The 1,200 staff inside DHCW and thousands of clinicians across Welsh Health Boards cannot read this site at work. The evidence — drawn entirely from public records, Senedd proceedings, and DHCW's own admissions — is invisible to the people it describes.

That makes you the distribution channel. If you can read this, you can share it with someone who can't.

Share With Colleagues Inside the NHS

DHCW staff and Health Board employees cannot access this site from work. But they can read it at home, on their phones, on personal devices. They need to know it exists.

What to do:

  • Share the link carenhs.org by word of mouth, in personal conversations, or via personal messaging apps (WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage) — not on NHS email or NHS devices
  • Print a specific article and leave it in a staff room, canteen, or common area — there is nothing unlawful about printed public-record material in a public building
  • Tell colleagues about specific findings: "Did you know DHCW refused every FOI request about its spending?" or "Did you know the Cyber Resilience Unit for all of NHS Wales was four people?"
  • If you are a DHCW employee and you recognise what this site describes — you are not alone. Multiple people have already contacted us. The site is blocked because it is accurate, not because it is wrong.

Share With Journalists

This story has not been covered with the depth it deserves. Welsh political journalists cover the Senedd but rarely have the technical background to interrogate DHCW's claims. Health correspondents cover clinical issues but not digital infrastructure. Technology journalists cover the sector but not Wales specifically.

What to do:

  • Send the link to a journalist you trust — national (BBC Wales, ITV Wales, WalesOnline, Nation.Cymru, Golwg) or specialist (Computer Weekly, Digital Health, HSJ)
  • Point them to specific articles that match their beat:
  • Our Press & Media page has a ready-made press pack with key facts, programme data, and contact details

Share With Politicians

Wales has a new government. Your newly elected MSs need to hear about DHCW — and you can make sure they do.

What to do:

  • Write to your MS using our letter templates — it takes five minutes
  • Share our open letter to the First Minister with your MSs — especially those on the Health and Social Care Committee or with digital/technology backgrounds
  • Use the accountability questions we've prepared — demand answers from your representatives
  • Share with local councillors — they sit on Health Board stakeholder groups and Regional Partnership Boards
  • Tag your MSs on social media with a link to specific articles

Share on Social Media

Every article on this site has a share button. But the most effective shares are personal — a sentence in your own words about why this matters to you.

Ready-made posts you can copy:

Nearly £200 million spent. Nine programmes failing. The only return: £0.5 million. And the CEO says measuring value is like measuring electricity. carenhs.org

England's NHS App has 39 million users. Wales's was described as "mired in delay." Same country. Same health service. Different leadership. carenhs.org/articles/world-class-leadership/

DHCW refused every Freedom of Information request about how it spends public money. Same letter, six times, citing a technicality. carenhs.org/articles/refused/

DHCW blocked carenhs.org from NHS Wales networks. Staff can't read documented, evidence-based criticism of their own employer. What are they hiding? carenhs.org

The entire NHS Wales Cyber Resilience Unit was four people. Protecting the health data of three million patients. carenhs.org

IBM was saved by an outsider from RJR Nabisco. GDS was built by a journalist from the Guardian. NHS Digital was led by a Credit Suisse technologist. DHCW is led by a career NHS administrator. Wales deserves world-class leadership. carenhs.org/articles/world-class-leadership/

Every successful turnaround in history started with one decision: changing the people at the top. DHCW is now at Level 4 — one step from Special Measures. Not one leader has changed. carenhs.org/articles/world-class-leadership/

Wales must decide how 3.2 million patients' records will work — for a generation. England has over 90% coverage. Northern Ireland deployed Epic across all trusts. Wales produced two reports in nine months. The organisation making this decision has failed at everything. carenhs.org/articles/the-ehr-decision/

The UK already wasted £12.7 billion trying to build a national health record under incompetent leadership. It was called NPfIT. Wales is about to repeat the same mistake at Welsh scale. carenhs.org/articles/the-ehr-decision/

Share With Professional Bodies

If you are a member of a professional body — BCS, BMA, RCN, RCGP, Royal College of Physicians, Chartered Institute of Public Finance, or any other — share this site with your Welsh representatives. Professional bodies carry institutional weight that individual voices do not.

The Royal Colleges have already spoken — their July 2025 joint briefing warned of patient harm. The more professional voices that echo this concern, the harder it becomes for Welsh Government to treat DHCW's failures as an internal matter.

Why This Matters

DHCW controls the digital infrastructure for 3.2 million people. It is at Level 4 — Targeted Intervention — one step from Special Measures. Its leadership cannot demonstrate a return on investment. FOI requests have revealed £49 million in hidden spending. Its board minutes are 85–90% sanitised. Its website critics are blocked. And not one director has faced any consequence.

This will not change because of one campaign. It will change because enough people — inside and outside the NHS — decide it has to. Every share, every conversation, every letter to an MS makes it harder to maintain the pretence that everything is fine.

The site is blocked because it is effective. Help it reach the people it was written for.

Email: carenhs@carenhs.org Website: carenhs.org