Appendix A. Main U.K. Maternity & Neonatal EPR-Related Initiatives

Volume Editor:  Rupert Fawdry

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Summary

Over the past 30 years there have been a whole series of initiatives (virually all paid for by the tax payer) with often minimal overlap between such intiatives either on paper or regarding personnel involved. It is intended that this volume will facilitate access to as many relevant documents or websites as possible.

The present chaotic situation
is summarised diagrammatically in
eepd/00_IMAGES/EEPDTALK/Mountain.pdf and
eepd/00_IMAGES/EEPDTALK/Chasm.pdf and
eepd/00_IMAGES/EEPDTALK/Tower.pdf (Updated 1.6.08)

Introduction - The Four Largest U.K. Perinatal Data / Electronic Records Initiatives

In the light of my long knowledge and involvement in maternity data and maternity records ever since 1979; and the fact that I had provided the knowledge engineering for the most sucessful U.K. maternity computer system (Protos 40/200 total U.K. sites) and that I was personally involved in one way or another in most of the maternity IT initiatives in Britain over the past 25 years, I seem to have aquired more information about what has been happening in maternity NHS-IT than anyone else that I have yet met.

In particular I have been involved as an advisor to all the four largest U.K. government funded attempts to provide the basis for progress in maternity computing, - each of them costing the taxpayer about half a million pounds each.

The present situation has also been summarised in my