NHSE quizzed on the link between single patient record and FDP 🙋- Digital Health News – 22 May 2025
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NHSE quizzed on the link between single patient record and FDP 🙋
Suppliers have quizzed NHS England about the relationship between the proposed single patient record (SPR) and the federated data platform (FDP).
Plans for an SPR which would connect NHS and social care data were announced by Wes Streeting, health secretary, in October 2024 and are expected to be central to the forthcoming 10 year health plan.
In response to a “pre-market engagement” on the creation of an SPR, launched in May 2025, suppliers submitted 198 clarification questions.
NHSE said in an email, seen by Digital Health News, that it had distilled the questions into 15 common themes, which have been answered in a FAQ document.
‘Serious concern’ raised about Digital Health and Care Wales🐲
Serious concern has been raised by the Welsh government about the ability of Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) to deliver major programmes.
DHCW launched as a special health authority in April 2021 to drive digital transformation, including the introduction of an electronic prescription service, the relaunch of the NHS Wales App and plans to create a single national clinical data repository.
It was moved to level three on the government’s intervention framework in March 2025 for performance and outcomes related to delivery of major programmes.
Helen Thomas, chief executive of DHCW, was questioned at the Senedd’s Health and Social Care Committee on 14 May 2025 about delays to the digital transformation of eye care.
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4moI am pleased with the level of commitment the Welsh government is currently putting into advancing electronic Prescriptions and Medicines Administration in Wales.