Electronic Patient Records (Hansard, 25 February 2003)

§ Chris Grayling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what targets are in place for the introduction of electronic patient records; [88736]
(2) how many trusts are meeting their targets for the introduction of electronic patient records. [88737]

§ Tim Loughton
To ask the Secretary of State for health pursuant to the answer given to the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham on 13 January 2003,Official Report, column 488W, when he expects all NHS trusts in the south-east to have introduced electronic patient records. [92598]

§ Mr. Lammy
The following targets are in place for implementing the Integrated Care Record Service (ICRS) in the Government's '21st Century IT' Strategy for the national health serviceHealth Records Infrastructure initial connections by all trusts by March 2005; December 2005—all primary care trusts and all NHS trusts actively implementing elements of electronic patient records (EPR); December 2007—full national health record service, with core data and reference links to local EPR systems for full record access; EPR (compliant with new national standard, XML-based specification) systems implemented in all PCTs and all hospitals (to be confirmed during calendar year 2003); and Unified Health Record (with all appropriate social care information) by December 2010 (to be confirmed during calendar year 2006).