The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7314 p278
28 August 2004

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IT programme support

The companies which have been contracted to provide the technical support in the development of the NHS Care Records Service, part of the National Programme for IT, were announced earlier this month.

Network equipment will be provided by Cisco Systems, storage technology by EMC Computer Systems, data handling by Hewlett Packard, transaction messaging by SeeBeyond, and infrastructure software and hardware by Sun Microsystems. Further support will be offered by TATA Consultancy Services.