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by IshKebab 2727 days ago
Yeah in theory they do but in practice if you move around a lot (like pretty much everyone does these days) they get lost.

It's just surgeries posting paper notes to other surgeries. Very archaic and unreliable. They did try to digitise everything several years ago but somehow managed to waste £13bn and produced nothing. Completely incompetent.

Record keeping is one area of the NHS that is a total embarrassment.

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> managed to waste £13bn and produced nothing.

Not true. A massive amount was wasted, but useful services were delivered as part of that £13bn, such as N3, PACS and the Spine.