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 5584239
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If I understand the Member correctly, she is talking about adding a layer of protection and security to a system whose essence is that everybody in Health and Social Care can access it. That is part of the beauty of Encompass. If a patient is being transferred from one hospital to another in an ambulance, the receiving consultant and their team do not have to wait to receive the paper file that comes with the patient. Instead, they can go on Encompass and prepare themselves. The difficulty is with whether people who have access to Encompass will use it in a prurient or voyeuristic way. I have been in discussions with our digital team, and we have come up with a warning that will appear on a person's home screen every time that they log into Encompass to tell them that inappropriate accessing of information could result in disciplinary action or even criminal prosecution.
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