St Helens & Knowsley NHS Trust scans outpatient records

As part of a larges-scale rebuilding program, St. Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has been prompted to move to electronic records. It currently has around 1 million case files in its health records library, containing an estimated 250 million paper pages, and expects the gradual transfer of records to the electronic system to pay for itself within two and a half years. The project's priority is to ensure quality of care by making records are available virtually all the time, officials said.