Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is seeking to procure a National Intelligent Integrated Audit Solution to monitor user access to the NHS Wales single patient record, national clinical applications, and national repositories.
Requirements for the solution include the ability to process audit logs from systems and display information on user behaviour via a dashboard, to scale and integrate both legacy and new connections, and to be hosted on a cloud basis integrated with the DHCW network.
DHCW also outlines the need for the solution to be able to integrate with NHS Wales systems, accessing audit logs using APIs, and referencing national systems to validate identities of patients and staff in real-time.
The contract has an estimated total value of £4.9 million, and is set to run from June 2026 to November 2030, with the potential for an extension to November 2034 in increments of two years. It is to be awarded based on weighted criteria: quality (35 percent), social value (10 percent), and price (55 percent).
Submissions can be made until 17 March 2026 at 12pm, and an award decision is expected on 27 April.
Wider trend: Health tech in Wales
NHS Wales has shared that its National Data Resource programme has achieved a milestone, with encounters data from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board linked into the care data repository. This update brings data such as referrals, outpatient appointments, and inpatient admissions together in a structured and standardised way, said to create a more complete picture of patient journeys and support better care coordination.
DHCW has awarded a contract worth £136,749 to Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research for the implementation of a FHIR Terminology Software Licence for the Wales Terminology Service, part of its National Data Resource infrastructure. This procurement will support Digital Health and Care Wales in distributing its nationally agreed data and information standards, it states. Beginning in March 2026, the contract will run to the end of February 2028, with a possible extension for a further year to February 2029.
The latest update to the NHS Wales App has introduced visibility for patients on their current position on NHS waiting lists, enabling them to view their referrals into hospital care, see details of upcoming appointments, and access information on managing their health while waiting for treatment. So far, more than 80,000 waiting list referrals and 197,000 hospital appointment notifications have been added to the App, according to NHS Wales. This adds to existing functionality allowing people to order repeat prescriptions and view their health and prescription history, send secure messages to their GP surgery, and access advice on things like screening services.
