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Me again folks! First of all my public apologies to Lynn and James for going over the top with the word "blatant". Some of you may know how it is when on occasion one comes home late after a few G&T's, etc. and decide to unwind my dialing into gp-uk before bed. Something catches the eye and you fire off a posting that worries you until the next time you can collect the responses. I, too, value Lynn and James input, and in fact was one of the few that supported Lynn's posting about a limited coding structure for Co-op OOH encounters. His idea gained little favour here with most wanting full READ coding or nothing. I still feel this would be a total disaster given the wide ranging computer literacy among the average Co-op's membership. Someone even suggested downloading coded information onto Practice computers.....Aaaagghhhh! Within EKDOC we have taken part in a couple of studies collecting information relating to encounters with patients suffering from Asthma and Strokes. Our in-house customised database enabled simple Yes/No fields to be created for each condition and the figures were easily extracted. Please note that this is not an advertisement :-; To be specific, what upset me was Lynn and James' postings on decision support software. First we had Lynn stating in connection with one product "No plans for linkage with Adastra, yet.....!" and James, admittedly initially praising another but then casting aspersions upon it's usefulness. I actually agree with James on this point as those whom I have spoken to, including triage nurses, say that after a while one becomes so used to dealing with the same sequence for the mostly trivial OOH encounters that the effective slowing of the consultation becomes an irritation. Regarding .sig files I still think my criticism is justified. Ewan's is far more acceptable and IMHO appropriate. Surely a simple pointer to the excellent Adastra web-page would be better than ....."Networks, PC support, BT Pagers, GP Co-ops...." etc. Well, Triims feels this thread has gone on long enough so I hope this more sober message puts an end to what I started. Regards Dr Peter Wilson Medical Manager The Mockett's Wood Surgery East Kent Doctors On-Call Hopeville Avenue, St. Peter's Tel. 01843 862179 Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 2TR Fax. 01843 590782 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%