Electronic message and information services

Tender description

The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are seeking to establish a contract for the provision of an All Wales Pathology — electronic quality management system. NHS Wales requires a national quality management system, which will be managed by a National Quality Management Team and locally in each health board/service. The national team will not only maintain standardised SOPs but also documentation for the new national LIMS service about to be procured including system and training documentation. It may also be used by the current LIMS to maintain validation of the blood transfusion module. The Welsh Pathology service has undertaken a significant amount of standardisation, with a single national laboratory information management system (LIMS) system and Public Health Wales, Microbiology have for many years had a Microbiology Method Development and Standardisation Group (MMDSG) which was set up to standardise, review and update SOPs. Currently there is no central national quality management system, which makes standardisation difficult to maintain. NHS Wales requires a national quality management system, which will be managed by a National Quality Management Team and locally in each health board/service. The national team will not only maintain standardised SOPs but also documentation for the new national LIMS service about to be procured including system and training documentation. It may also be used by the current LIMS to maintain validation of the blood transfusion module. A key aim of the new LIMS service is to ensure a more standardised implementation with system documentation maintained nationally so that testers sitting with the Wales National Quality Management Team can support local sites with their user acceptance testing.