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Helen Thomas, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Health and Care Wales, won ‘Digital CEO of the Year’ at the 2021 Digital Health Awards.

The Digital Health and Care Wales Board has heard how the scale and pace of agile development work for the Welsh Immunisation System (WIS) is “a complete game changer” and “critical to the success of the [Welsh mass vaccination] program” at its September board meeting.

Hundreds of millions of pounds has been saved by Welsh Government using public sector services during the pandemic, including Test, Trace, Protect.

We are pleased to announce that Simon Jones has been appointed by Welsh Government as chair of our board.

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Congratulations to our procurement team for winning the ‘COVID-19 Outstanding Response Award ‒ NHS and Healthcare Organisations’ award at the UK National GO Awards 2021.

Today, DHCW is honouring World Patient Safety Day, a WHO initiative that promotes patient safety awareness, engagement, and action. This year’s theme is safe maternal and newborn care.

The system used to process electronic referrals from GPs to hospitals has for the first time linked up with hospitals cross-border, in England. 

Doctors in Wales are now able to access digital genetic test results for urgent cancer patients, following a recent update to the Welsh Clinical Portal (WCP).

We’re helping to give Welsh people access to vaccination ‘passport’ certificates, read more.

Community pharmacists in Wales are to be given increased access to patients’ GP medical records as part of the Choose Pharmacy service, to help them care for more people with minor illnesses.

Are you involved in either prescribing or administering medicines? Do you educate, train or support others in e-resources related to Medicines Information? The e-library for Health needs your help.

People in Wales are now able to access their vaccination status online via a digital NHS COVID Pass. 

Rapid access to patients’ digital health records has been critical in delivering life-saving care, according to paramedics at the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST). 

A brand new, digital way of working has been introduced for nurses and other hospital staff in Wales

Gary Bullock, DHCW’s Director of Application Development and Support, is to retire at the end of the month.

The Welsh Government has funded five places on the national learning programme for NHS candidates, which results in a Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Health Leadership, awarded by Imperial College London.

Digital Health and Care Wales have been named winners at the Go Awards Wales for COVID-19 Outstanding Response as well as the overall GO Excellence Award.