One criticism that has been made of our progress on e-health—it has some validity—is that we have adopted pilot approaches that have been shown to work but the rolling out and mainstreaming of those across the health service has not been particularly good.The e-health strategy has five strategic aims: first, to maximise efficient working practices for staff; secondly, to support the public to communicate better with the health service and to manage their own health; thirdly, to contribute to integrating care and supporting people with long-term conditions; fourthly, to enhance the availability of information for healthcare workers; and, fifthly, to improve medicine...