Computer revolution.

THE FIRST electronic computers preceded the creation of the NHS by a couple of years. But when I joined tire NHS nearly 30 years later, they were not in evidence. Within a year a large computerised wages system was ' installed in my hospital, but this had no impact on patient care. Four year's later tilings had changed! I was using a very early nursing computer system, from which I could order drugs, access laboratory results and enter clinical curd nursing notes.