The Digital Blueprint for NHS Wales names twelve national NHS Wales digital systems and infrastructure components. Each has a one-page reference below — what it is, what it does, its current status, the patient-safety record where one exists, and where it is discussed across the diagnosis.
These pages are reference, not advocacy. They compile what is documented in Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) board minutes, programme reports, Welsh Government correspondence, and the blueprint’s diagnosis. Citations link back to the relevant feedback-loop or trap analyses.
- Welsh Patient Administration System (WPAS) WPAS — the Welsh Patient Administration System — is the primary national clinical administration system for NHS Wales.
- Regional Imaging Solution / RISP (RISP) RISP — the Welsh radiology and imaging programme — has a documented 'global worklist' issue that threatens cross-Wales image viewing.
- Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) LIMS Wales — the national laboratory information system — was compressed from four years to two while recruitment was frozen. It did not deliver on time.
- Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) EPMA — the national NHS Wales Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration programme — illustrates the accountability gap the Digital Blueprint for NHS Wales diagnoses.
- Welsh Master Patient Index (EMPI) eMPI — the Welsh master patient index — is the national patient-identity reconciliation system for NHS Wales.
- Welsh Clinical Communications Gateway (WCCG) WCCG — the Welsh Clinical Communications Gateway — has run on vendor-unsupported technology for 8+ years, against repeated internal warnings.
- Welsh Intensive Care Information System (WICIS) WICIS — the Welsh Intensive Care Information System — is the national critical-care clinical information programme for NHS Wales. It is 'effectively still on pause'.
- DHCW Data Centre DHCW's data centre is the physical infrastructure layer on which national NHS Wales systems run.
- Public Sector Broadband Aggregation (PSBA) PSBA — Public Sector Broadband Aggregation — provides shared network infrastructure across the Welsh public sector including NHS Wales.
- NHS Wales App The NHS Wales App has hundreds of thousands of registrations and very low regular use. What it does, why adoption stalled, and what the Digital Blueprint for NHS Wales would fix.
- Welsh Community Care Information System (WCCIS) WCCIS — the Welsh Community Care Information System — consumed £42M+ across eleven years, reached 19 of 29 organisations, and was rebranded, not finished.
- CANISC — Cancer Network Information System Cymru CANISC — the cancer system NHS Wales tolerated for 30 years on unsupported software — held DHCW's highest risk score until decommissioning in July 2025.