Introduction
Work on the GPES project began in 2007 when it was the responsibility of the NHS Information Centre (NHS IC), which designed and ran the project. It was overseen by the Department which approved the business cases and provided the required funding as well as contributing technical expertise around the design and how it would integrate with other NHS systems. GPES is designed to extract data from the four major clinical IT systems used by GPs. NHS IC contracted with the four major suppliers of the clinical IT systems used by GPs to produce software to extract data from their systems. NHS IC also awarded a contract to Atos in December 2011 to produce the central software required to interact with each of these systems. On 31 March 2013 NHS IC closed and responsibility for GPES transferred to the new Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).
© Parliamentary copyright 2015
Prepared 21 December 2015