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S U B S C R I B E
Tuesday, 9 March, 2010
New health cards already making doctors sick
They’ll be over a year late, doctors don’t trust them and so far they don’t even work. The new health cards we’re all supposed to receive next month are meant to meet European Union standards. They carry an electronic chip designed to hold a patient’s medical information, making it accessible to doctors with their own version of the card. But right now, tests on the two systems show they’re incompatible—and with only two months to go before the big launch, this has led to an unhealthy squabble. Lucas Chambers reports:
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