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Department of Health

This is an interesting point, and I hope that the Minister will tell us more about electronic prescribing and about the conversion of the Prescription Pricing Authority on to an electronic basis. That should, in theory, allow us to extract much more of the data that the right hon. Gentleman describes. However, although the transfer to electronic prescribing has increased, we are still achieving only a tiny fraction of the amount that was intended. By this stage, we were expecting to have pretty much an entirely electronic system, from the doctor’s screen right through to reimbursement through the PPA.