Speakers:
Dr Mark Walport, Director of Wellcome Trust, Imperial College London
Prof Alan Gillies, Head of the Health Informatics Research Unit, Lancashire School of Health
Prof Carol Dezateux, Director, MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health
Andrew Haw, Chair Of ASSIST, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust
Dr John Parkinson, Head, General Practice Research Database
Leading medical and computer experts presented their thoughts on the major benefits to medical research and patient care that they believe should be brought about by the much criticised NHS Connecting for Health and the National Programme for IT.