Sharing patient information electronically throughout the NHS

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7407.114

BMJ 2003;327:114-115 (19 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7407.114

Editorial

Sharing patient information electronically throughout the NHS

Time for all clinicians to get involved

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The UK government's NHS modernisation process is driven by highlyvisible promises to improve the standards and equity of heathcare in the United Kingdom.¹ The government hopes that thesystematisation of health care can bring about revolutionaryand cost effective changes in the ways we deliver care and has promised new electronic systems to enable us to monitor thequality, effectiveness, and equity of health interventions,in more open, evidence based, and person centred ways. In particular,the NHS in England has £2.3bn ($3.75bn; €3.31bn)to spend between now and 2005 on an integrated care recordservice. At the heart of this service is a health informationspine, where patient summary information will be published foruse by all NHS staff involved in the care of individuals.²Yet few clinicians have played any part in planning the spine.Populating it with appropriate and accurate clinical data willnot be . . . [Full text of this article]

Nick Booth, principal clinical research associate

School of Population and Health Sciences, Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AA n.s.booth@ncl.ac.uk)

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