NHS needs to go paperless to stop needless deaths, claims government

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned that lack of electronic patient records in the NHS is such a problem it is leading directly to patient deaths, according to the British Journal of Healthcare Computing. So bad is the current situation, he claimed, that some records take up to six months to switch between one GP practice to another when a patient moves house. But such inefficiency is only part of the issue, he said: “People are actually dying because we haven’t gone electronic,” Hunt told The Sunday Times in an in-depth interview at the weekend. Repeating his call for a