David Roberts
> Blair says that the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) should be made
available countrywide 24 hours a day, with access between GPs, and summaries
for different purposes e.g. alerts, emergency information only.
Andrew Herd
> I obviously missed something while I was away fishing. When and where did
TB say this?
Speech to the NHS 50th conference, Earls' Court, 2nd July.
Some fragments of what he said ....
"People know that hospitals work round the clock but they sill sometimes
feel that the instant access, 7 day 24 hour world that they normally live in
appears to have passed the NHS by"
....
"and if you live in Birmingham and have an accident while you are, for
example, in Bradford it should be posssible for your records to be instantly
available to the doctors treating you."
The full text of his speech is at (or near)
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/textsite/info/releases/speeches/Speech_display.a
sp?random=0&index=2&sessionid=2463
(That long URL will probably get line breaks inserted in it when I send it!)
John Farenden
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