Membership is open to any UK clinician in Primary Care. In the future we would like to open membership to secondary care clinicians but this will have to wait until Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) are available and used by these clinicians.

Memberships fees are under review depending on the result of meetings we are having with potential commercial partners.

• To serve the communication needs of the medical profession and thereby to encourage excellence
• To facilitate local, district, regional and national clinical audit
• To establish and promote a national, independent, clinically secure medical computer network supervised by registered clinicians and governed by the same strict ethics used by its contributors
• To provide a confidential medium for electronically conveying data entrusted to it by members on behalf of their patients, in accordance with the principles of medical ethics
• To facilitate the ethical use of anonymised clinical data for epidemiology, commissioning and research by individual practices, localities, Primary Care Organisations (PCOs), Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) and possibly the Department of Health (DoH) for strategic planning. (The requirements of other relevant bodies can also be considered as appropriate)
• To comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act and associated UK legislation