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Valley view: Medical records in sore need of a booster

By Chris Nuttall

Published: June 17 2008 14:43 | Last updated: June 17 2008 14:43

My regular experience of data collection in the health service consists of getting down on my hands and knees and scrabbling to collate faxes that have spilled on to the floor.

I put them in the right order, staple them and scrutinise the poorly scanned monthly blood results for my son, who has Juvenile Dermatomyositis, an autoimmune disease.

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