<dd>Almost all British general practitioners use computers in their
consulting rooms, but most hospital doctors do not
</dd><dt></dt><dd><hr align="left" width="99%">Over 30 years, leaders of the general practitioner profession have
worked with government to provide incentives for computerising
practices and to remove barriers
</dd><dt></dt><dd><hr align="left" width="99%">In hospitals computing was treated as a management overhead, and
doctors had no incentives to become involved
</dd><dt></dt><dd><hr align="left" width="99%">The success of the government's plans for "joined up," computer
based health services depends on providing appropriate incentives to
hospital doctors</dd>
