Looking for a bit of background information? These links should come in useful.

• Need more information on the NHS Care Records Service, and national progress? See the NHS Care Records Service website.
• Key messages and information packs and other useful materials on the NHS Care Records Service.
• Information on the NHS Care Records Service database, the 'Spine'.
• Information on the Care Record Guarantee is available here. The guarantee covers issues of access to patient information - people's access to their own records, controls on others' access and how access will be monitored and policed.
• Do you need to explain some jargon? Need background information? The national glossary of Health, Social Care and Information Technology is a really useful source of information on all aspects of NHS and Social Care work; definitions, factsheets, google searches and relevant weblinks all available from here.
• Find frequently asked questions, staff and patient case studies, a jargon buster and lots of other useful informaiton on the NHS Connecting for Health facts and fiction pages.
• More information on Choose and Book here. National Choose and Book communications resources (including pocket guides, DVDs, posters etc) are also available.
• Information on the Electronic Prescriptions Service and Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions and communications resources (includes posters, toolkit and guidance material).
• Find out more about the Picture Archiving and Communications Service here, order resources here (includes poster, leaflets/brochures, display stands etc).
• A to Z of the National Programme for IT programmes and projects, with links to further information available here.