Purchase of laptop carts and charging cabinets

n 2023, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board undertook a procurement

exercise to implement an Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration

(ePMA) system. This enabled the digitalisation of paper-based drug charts across

the Health Board, supporting safer medicines administration and providing a fully

auditable end-to-end record from pharmacist verification through to nurse

administration.

In February 2025, utilising capital funding received from Welsh Government, the

Health Board invested in the outright purchase of hardware to meet the current

and anticipated future requirements of the ePMA programme. To support usability

and ward-based workflows, laptop carts were introduced to house computer

hardware and facilitate the secure transportation of medicines, improving the

efficiency of medicines rounds and administration.

Funding has been approved within the 2025/26 ePMA Capital Budget to procure

additional carts and charging cabinets to support the ongoing roll-out and

implementation of the programme.

As a revised implementation date has now been confirmed, there is a requirement

to secure further carts and laptops to meet the updated deployment plan. The

capital budget has allocated funding for this additional requirement, and the

procurement will be undertaken via CDW Limited to maintain standardisation of

equipment across the Health Board and ensure compatibility with the established

ePMA hardware solution.