A potted history of NHS IT strategy up to December 2000, prior to the New GMS contract and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)...
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Since the early 1990's the Internet has enjoyed unprecedented use as a library of health-related information and resources. The freedoms it provides have seen access to it positioned high on professional, political, and cultural agendas. As with much of healthcare, however, who has access is in part determined by the so-called "digital divide" between various groups, such as those in differing socio-economic classes. A new divide has notionally been created between UK National Health Service professionals and their patients, as the former now have almost universal Internet access via the health service's wide-area network, NHSnet...
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