Integrated Primary Care and Community Electronic Patient Records

HL Deb 03 December 2001 vol 629 c112WA

Baroness Noakes

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What progress has been made in implementing integrated primary care and community electronic patient records in health authorities; and whether they expect to meet their target of 25 per cent set in Information for Health. [HL1598]

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

The national targets set inInformation for Health were revised January 2001, and are contained within Building the information Core—Implementing the NHS Plan. The revised targets are as follows:

National Percentages by Date
Integrated Primary Community Electronic Patient Record	31/3/01	31/3/02	31/3/03	31/3/04	31/3/05
			25	50	100

The target of 25 per cent by 31/3/03 remains quite ambitious but following the excellent progress with Project Connect in connecting general practice to the NHSnet it remains achievable.