AIMS
To read clinical notes as an uninterrupted narrative
To write a clinical note following a single keystroke
I have selected these aims because I think they are specific, measurable, achievable and relevant and will, hopefully, gain widespread support. There are many other more detailed changes that would improve the general practice computer record but these are hard to describe, impossible to demonstrate without direct access to the working system and possibly a matter of personal opinion. This website is not intended to be a forum for listing problems with individual systems: I have mentioned a few merely for the purposes of illustration. It might serve, rather, to highlight the fundamental problems with current systems - the difficulty of reading and writing clinical notes - and focus effort on rectifying these.