The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7341 p326
19 March 2005

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Ten-year vision for NHS Wales

A vision of how the NHS in Wales could look in 10 years’ time was launched by a collaboration of health groups this week, including the Welsh NHS Confederation. “A picture of health: how the NHS in Wales could look in 2015” (PDF 730K) provides an overview of how the NHS could be operating over the next decade.

One futuristic “case study” describes a mother who takes her daughter, who is wheezing, to her local pharmacy. The pharmacist looks up the child’s health record, sees that she has had a previous chest infection and uses his computer to book an appointment for the child with a specialist nurse. At the clinic the nurse is joined by video-link by a chest consultant at a hospital 20 miles away.

A spokeswoman for the Welsh Assembly Government said: “The discussions we have had with the partners who have produced this document have helped to inform the Assembly in the development of its 10-year strategy which is to be launched next month.”