All Health Boards across Wales now have access to digital patient information and have recently made dentistry information available.
NHS Wales Informatics Services (NWIS) announced that in January, the millionth digital test result was viewed between health boards via Wales’ digital patient record service, the Welsh Clinical Portal.
It said January was also the busiest month to date for viewing out-of-area patient information, with more than 49,000 test results shared between health boards.
The news follows the last health board, Cardiff and Vale to adopt the digital radiology results reporting service.
Griff Williams, Project Lead for the Welsh Clinical Portal “Reaching the milestone of one million test results viewed across Welsh health board boundaries demonstrates the scale of value that can be generated when a national product is fully implemented.”
“Our plan for the Single Patient Record is to further increase the level of digitised healthcare available to NHS healthcare professionals, including endoscopy, lung function and genetics results.”
Dentistry data available
Data collected by a new dentistry system will now be available across all welsh health boards.
The system provides a dashboard of data that reflects all dental referrals made; covering referrals into each health board, including the number to each speciality, the number of referrals to primary and secondary care and referrals returned due to error.
The data allows dentists to review and monitor whether they are being seen in the appropriate setting.
Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda were the first health board to use the system in March 2019, with the rest to follow in May.
