Digital Health & Care Wales has awarded a contract for continued access to Royal Marsden Manual Online (RMM). This is a comprehensive digital resource for standardised adult nursing procedures, developed by clinical nurse experts at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
The contract also includes access to the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Manual of Children and Young People’s Nursing Practices, containing over 300 evidence‑based paediatric procedures, supporting organisations delivering care to both adults and children.
Digital Health and Care Wales (“DHCW”) has awarded a contract for the provision of a market‑ready Library Linking Tool to support NHS Wales staff in accessing licensed and subscribed electronic knowledge resources. The solution enables seamless linking from publisher platforms and other online environments to full‑text content available through the NHS Wales e‑Library, supporting evidence‑based decision‑making across NHS Wales.
The contract covers the supply, implementation, support, maintenance, training and ongoing development of a Library Linking Tool for All Wales use. The solution supports OpenURL linking, OpenAthens and IP authentication, accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.2), Welsh language provision, national deployment across NHS Wales devices, and integration with existing NHS Wales library systems.
The procurement was conducted using the Open Procedure in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023.
This procurement process is being undertaken to establish a framework agreement that enables the
Authority to call off Commercial Advice work packages for various national procurements. Digital Health
and Care Wales is seeking to procure a Commercial Advisor at a senior executive level. The Senior
Commercial Advisor is required to support a number of strategic procurement projects for NHS Wales via a
variety of procurement processes, in particular the competitive dialogue process for complex digital or
clinical/digital procurement activity. There will also be a requirement to provide additional commercial
advice on an ad-hoc basis. The work packages that will be called off under this agreement are likely to
follow a Competitive Dialogue PCR15 process.
Digital Health & Care Wales ("DHCW") intends to procure a quantity of FIGMA, Inc. licenses to support teams in iterating designs, testing with users, and handing off to developers within a single platform. This initiative aims to deliver consistency, enable faster iteration, and foster seamless communication across multidisciplinary teams.
The FIGMA licences are required to:
Provide a collaborative design tool that streamlines UI/UX workflows.
Consolidate the product design cycle into one platform.
Offer a cloud-based solution to mitigate errors and duplication.
Allow multiple users simultaneous access for improved efficiency.
DHCW is seeking to work together with Figma, Inc to commission a number of user licenses to support the on-going requirement. This procurement will ensure that DHCW Stakeholder have the tools necessary to enhance design processes and deliver high-quality outcomes.
Digital Health & Care Wales ("DHCW") intends to procure a quantity of FIGMA, Inc. licenses to support teams in iterating designs, testing with users, and handing off to developers within a single platform. This initiative aims to deliver consistency, enable faster iteration, and foster seamless communication across multidisciplinary teams.
The FIGMA licences are required to:
Provide a collaborative design tool that streamlines UI/UX workflows.
Consolidate the product design cycle into one platform.
Offer a cloud-based solution to mitigate errors and duplication.
Allow multiple users simultaneous access for improved efficiency.
DHCW is seeking to work together with Figma, Inc to commission a number of user licenses to support the on-going requirement. This procurement will ensure that DHCW Stakeholder have the tools necessary to enhance design processes and deliver high-quality outcomes.
DHCW operates in a challenging landscape and are a provider for digital solutions for use across NHS Wales and as such we engage with many stakeholders from DHCW employees to colleagues across NHS Wales and Welsh Government. As an organisation, DHCW is committed to repositioning its role within the system by strengthening our strategic partnerships and enhancing our impact at both national and local levels. This aligns directly with the Cabinet Secretary’s expectations for greater collaboration and more integrated ways of working across the system. In support of this shift, we have identified a clear opportunity to develop a cohort of leaders from across the organisation who are ready to deepen their collaborative skills and lead more effectively across organisational and system boundaries.
DHCW is seeking to work together with the Whitehall and Industry Group (“WIG”) to commission an Advanced Collaborative Leadership Programme (“ACLP”).
Digital Health and Care Wales ("DHCW") have a requirement for a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources ("FHIR") Terminology Software License. The Terminology Service is a key component of the National Data Resource ("NDR") infrastructure; the requirement will maintain and distribute nationally agreed data and information standards across Wales Health and Care.
In accordance with PA2023 Section 47 (7)(b); there would be a detrimental consequences to business continuity for DHCW if a different Supplier was utilised which would pose great technical difficulties and furthermore; would cost a considerable amount of time and money. This would be due to requiring a redesign of infrastructure and DHCW would need to start the assurance process from the very beginning. This in turn would also impact SNOMED Services which would not be able to support and would cause delays of implementing National clinical applications, which would affect patient care.
DHCW operates in a challenging landscape and are a provider for digital solutions for use across NHS Wales and as such we engage with many stakeholders from DHCW employees to colleagues across NHS Wales and Welsh Government. As an organisation, DHCW is committed to repositioning its role within the system by strengthening our strategic partnerships and enhancing our impact at both national and local levels. This aligns directly with the Cabinet Secretary’s expectations for greater collaboration and more integrated ways of working across the system. In support of this shift, we have identified a clear opportunity to develop a cohort of leaders from across the organisation who are ready to deepen their collaborative skills and lead more effectively across organisational and system boundaries.
DHCW is seeking to work together with the Whitehall and Industry Group (“WIG”) to commission an Advanced Collaborative Leadership Programme (“ACLP”).
Digital Health and Care Wales has awarded a contract for continued access to the Cochrane Library Database, a unique and proprietary evidence resource used extensively by healthcare staff, researchers, and citizens across NHS Wales. The database is exclusively owned by Cochrane and distributed only by the publisher Wiley; therefore, no alternative suppliers exist.
Loss of access would significantly impact clinical decision‑making, research support, operational library services, and public access to reliable evidence.