to NHS Wales app amid 'expansion'

PATIENTS will be able to view test results and track appointments in the NHS Wales app as part of a major expansion announced by the Welsh Government.

- CHRIS HAINES

Sarah Murphy, who is responsible for digital transformation in the NHS, outlined forthcoming features such as waiting-list tracking - with plans to add test results in 2026.

In a statement, the mental health minister set out her ambition of making the NHS Wales app the “digital front door” for patients.

Ms Murphy told Senedd Members: “This is a useful and powerful platform with a huge potential to change the way we all use and interact with our health service.

“{t represents a fundamental shift in how we empower people to engage with their healthcare.”

She described the NHS Wales app as “perfectly placed to evolve into the digital front door to the NHS capable of directing us to the right service for our needs’.

Ms Murphy told the Senedd that use of the app is steadily growing, with more than half a million downloads - equivalent to one in five adults in Wales - since its launch in 2023.

She highlighted that nearly two and a half million repeat prescriptions have been ordered through the app and 2,000 people have registered their wishes on organ donation.