Digital Transition Strategic Partner

Hywel Dda Local Health Board are looking to put in place a long-term strategic partnership to enable us to plan, access and manage the capacity necessary to fully deliver the scale of our digital ambitions. The partnership will do this by fully leveraging the capacity and expertise that exists, both within the Health Board and with a strategic partner, significantly accelerating the pace of delivery of our Digital Response and digital priorities

When we refer to ‘Digital Strategic Partner’ we are describing a contracted relationship with an expert Technology based supplier with skills and expertise across IT and digital. The partner will be flexible in nature, allowing Hywel Dda to access additional capacity and capability at pace which will help us in delivering and supporting our digital transformation ambitions. We expect this type of partnership arrangement to provide us with a long term, stable and sustainable solutions.

We expect the partnership to work in an integrated way with our internal teams, maximising and leveraging both the partnership and internal Health Board knowledge and expertise.

A strategic partnering arrangement will therefore put in place much needed flexibility to sustainably manage changing peaks and troughs of future project and initiative activity, responding to funding opportunities more quickly, thereby reducing over time the use of ad-hoc contractor support and achieving more sustainable outcomes for patients / citizens.