Access Points for Digital Networking Activity

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The Digital and Health Intelligence Department are committed to support the Health Board in maintaining the Network infrastructure to ensure business as usual is applied and to enable stock availability to support Capital Schemes and recovery programmes of work. As part of the Digital infrastructure sustainability programme a review has been undertaken of the ‘IT Infrastructure risk adjusted replacement programme’ and highest priority risks within the UHB Network have been prioritised as part of this procurement. A bid was submitted to Welsh Government in December 2025 to be considered for funding to address the following findings. The Health Board have close to 4000 wireless access points across the C&V UHB sites and typically see a lifespan of 8 to 10 years per model before they become EOL (end-of-life). Funding was agreed to replace the following access points approaching EOL. 1800 series access points are expected to be EOL by April 2026 and there are a total of 689 of this model in operation.