Introduction

The NHS Wales Standards and Architecture Group (SAG) is the national body that provides strategic direction, guidance, and oversight for the development, implementation, and maintenance of architectural frameworks and standards across NHS Wales. SAG has the authority to approve national architecture principles, standards, and decisions.

Organisations across NHS Wales, such as DHCW, adopt these national principles and standards, and supplement them with their own local governance, rationale, and implementation detail.

This section contains the following key areas:

Governance

• SAG Terms of Reference - SAG's purpose, objectives, and operating model.

Architecture Principles

• NHS Wales Architecture Principles - The foundational architecture principles approved by SAG for use across NHS Wales.