Between patient and health service, connection is key - for information, advice, and help when help is needed. A new NHS Wales App will soon be available, boosting that connection. What will it do? How will it work? To explain it all are Tracy Higgs - Product Lead at the Software Developer, Kainos and Matt Cornish - Digital Health and Care Wales Programme Director for Digital Services for Patients and the Public. Transcripts of this episode are available in Welsh and English ..read more

Clinical Informaticists are the bridge between clinical and tech who turned wants into reality. But what does it take to be a clinical informaticist? And how exactly do they bring these two worlds, clinical and tech, together? To find out, we speak with Jane Brady, Senior Lead Nursing Informatics Specialist at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, and Peter Cumpstone, National Clinical Informatics Lead for Therapies at Digital Health and Care Wales. Transcripts of this episode are available in Welsh and English ..read more

Few professions in healthcare are as notorious as being swamped with as much paperwork as nurses. They record copious amounts of notes about their patients, condition assessments including medication, admissions, and much, much more. This information is shared with clinicians, consultants, other nurses and other teams. But now, in Wales, nurses are ditching the paper and going digital with the rollout of the new Welsh Nursing Care Record. To talk about it and what this means for both nurses and their patients are: Claire Bevan - NHS Wales Digitisation of Nursing Documentation Project SRO and F ..read more

In Wales’s busy intensive care units, every second counts for health staff who need to make critical decisions for seriously ill patients.  A new Welsh Intensive Care Information System (WICIS) will help that staff and their patients by collecting real-time information automatically from the monitoring devices, pumps and respiratory equipment used for each patient’s care, providing easy access to vital data and insights and giving frontline staff a quick and clear overview of the status of patients and devices across the ward. To talk about WICIS are: Lucy Morgan - Critical Care Dietician ..read more

As patient data is collected, it is processed into research, statistics, case studies and publications - published works.   This forms the evidence used, for example, by NHS Wales clinicians to make well-informed decisions for their patients or perhaps Welsh Government teams to look for the trends involved in the spread of Covid in Welsh communities.  The evidence is cataloged and stored in databases - many many databases ..read more

Healthcare librarians are experts in the field of knowledge. It's their job to help provide evidence-based information to those searching for it. They might be part of a multidisciplinary team finding the evidence a doctor might use for treating their patients condition. They might help researchers look for statistics or a health board manager search for a policy to support a staffing decision. They're also experts of knowing where to look for the evidence-based information. To talk about the importance of healthcare librarians are Rhys Whelan, Library Service Manager at Swansea Morriston Hosp ..read more

In the world of Healthcare IT, Business Analysts are the problem solvers and bridge builders acting as a conduit between clinicians, technicians and developers. They make sure everyone is on the same page, and the right tools are delivered to the right people.  We speak with Fiona Churchill, Senior Business Analyst for NHS Wales Informatics Service and Suzanne Rodgers, Head of Clinical Informatics and Business Analysis Programs for NHS Wales Informatics Service about the role they and their teams toward the delivery of healthcare IT.  Transcripts of this episode are available in both ..read more

The Wales Institute of Digital Information (WIDI) is a collaboration between University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the NHS Wales Informatics Service providing the skills and training for the next generation of healthcare IT graduates. WIDI’s apprenticeship program allows students to get valuable work experience while finishing their university degree. We’re with two apprentices to talk about how this training has helped fuel their careers. Katie Rees - Software Support Officer and Ben Atkins - Client Services IT Support Officer, both now working in NHS Wales.  Transcripts of this po ..read more

When we use "evidence," how do we know it contains the information and facts we need? We speak with Welsh Government's Digital Librarian, Steven Gregory and Rachel Sully, Librarian Specialist at NHS Wales e-Library for Health. Transcripts of this episode are available in both Welsh and English ..read more

Clinical coders in Wales are going digital - moving their beloved reference books from paper to electronic formats.  We talk with Karen Windsor - NHS Wales Informatics Service National Clinical Coding Audit Programme Lead and Richard Burdon - NHS Wales Informatics Service Classifications Standards Manager about these changing times. Transcripts of this episode are available in both Welsh and English.   ..read more