Debate contribution: Encompass
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 2 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Encompass
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5584231
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Encompass is now fully live across all five geographical health and social care trusts. It provides a single digital health and care record that supports safer, more joined-up care for people right across Northern Ireland. It is a major, once-in-a-generation modernisation. It is also an essential foundation of service reform. Independent assurance has been used as part of our oversight toolkit at key milestones. A recent review described the regional solution as being robust and assessed delivery as being feasible, while also being explicit about the issues that continue to require active management attention. The benefits are increasingly becoming tangible. Staff now have far better access to timely information. Encompass reduces duplication and supports faster decision-making, with improvements expected to grow as optimisation continues. Patients and service users are also benefiting from increased transparency and digital access through the My Care portal. Over 300,000 people have already signed up to the My Care app.
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