1. Do you have a single electronic record across your NHS Trust/Health Board?
2. Do you have a single Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) across your NHS Trust/Health Board?
3. Is there a clinical use of any pathology IT systems in your NHS Trust/Health Board outside of microbiology/pathology laboratories?
4. Do you have a remotely accessible pathology IT system? If no, do you have plans to move to a remotely accessible LIMS in the next a) 1 year, b) 2 years, c) 3 years, d) 5 years or e) some point in the future?
5. In your NHS Trust/Health Board what percentage of point of care systems link into your LIMS?
6. Does your pharmacy receive patient laboratory test results from a) the laboratory, b) Trust/Health Board patient record, c) pathology IT system, or d) other please specify?
7. Do your General Practices receive patient laboratory test results from a) the laboratory, b) Trust/Health Board patient record, c) pathology IT system, or d) other please specify?
8. Who in your NHS Trust/Health Board is responsible for a) the procurement, b) implementation, and c) operational management of pathology IT systems.
Thank you for your request dated 29th January 2024.
1. Do you have a single electronic record across your NHS Trust/Health Board?
No, we do not have a single electronic record for our Trust.
2. Do you have a single Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) across your NHS Trust/Health Board?
Our pathology laboratories use the single national Laboratory Information Management System except our Bowel Screening lab which sends results directly to our Bowel Screening Information Management System.
3. Is there a clinical use of any pathology IT systems in your NHS Trust/Health Board outside of microbiology/pathology laboratories?
No we do not use the pathology IT systems outside of our microbiology/pathology laboratories.
4. Do you have a remotely accessible pathology IT system? If no, do you have plans to move to a remotely accessible LIMS in the next a) 1 year, b) 2 years, c) 3 years, d) 5 years or e) some point in the future?
We can only access our LIMS when connected to the NHS Wales network.
5. In your NHS Trust/Health Board what percentage of point of care systems link into your LIMS?
We do not have any point of care systems in our Trust.
6. Does your pharmacy receive patient laboratory test results from a) the laboratory, b) Trust/Health Board patient record, c) pathology IT system, or d) other please specify?
We do not have a pharmacy.
7. Do your General Practices receive patient laboratory test results from a) the laboratory, b) Trust/Health Board patient record, c) pathology IT system, or d) other please specify?
GPs in Wales receive some of laboratory results from the pathology IT system, our clinical systems and via the Welsh Clinical Portal.
8. Who in your NHS Trust/Health Board is responsible for a) the procurement, b) implementation, and c) operational management of pathology IT systems.
Procurement of pathology IT systems is nationally provided, implementation and operational management of pathology IT systems is done by Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) with some local configuration done by Public Health Wales staff.
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