Lloyd George records??

Yes, they were quite small packets with all GP health records inside. Practices receive them when patients move to another GP. They then get scanned onto computer records and summarised as well.

Trouble was frequent visitors would have three or four buff envelopes butsting open and held together by rubber bands. The printing on the front would be blue for acwoman and red for a man, which always seemed the wrong way round.

When moving from practice to practice the whole lot would have to be sent to the FHSA by courier, then on to the new pactice, to be taken out, read through and summarised. I did 8000 of these in my own time to get our practice approved for training new GPs.

I then worked with the clinical system suppliers to devise a method of burning the whole record onto a CD which was sent in the buff envelope to the new GP practice with instructions how to upload it. Now of course the records are sent electronically, but I hope they are still thoroughly checked by the new practice. I remember an early demo at an exhibition where the dosage of one drug was doubled in the transfer!