BMJ  2006;332:1467 (24 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7556.1467

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England sets up task force to hasten use of electronic records

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Plans to create a shared electronic care record for every NHS patient in England are to be accelerated, despite auditors' reservations and a call from BMA members for GPs to consider boycotting the system.

Lord Warner does not have "a flicker of doubt" that the records service will be in place by 2010 Credit: DAVID PARTNER/UPPA

 

Norman Warner, the minister responsible for reforming the NHS in England, announced the plans after the first independent audit of the four year old project was published last week.

In a long awaited report the National Audit Office calculated that the project, the largest of its kind in the world, would cost £12.4bn (18.1bn; $22.8bn) over 10 years. This is double the contract value normally cited by the department but lower than previous estimates, which had put the total cost at £20bn over 10 years (Financial Times 30 May, p 1. . . [Full text of this article]

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