World’s first computerised records in general practice

World’s first computerised records in general practice

Agreement: I AgreeBody: Dear Editor, In your obituary of Jeremy Bradshaw-Smith (March 2025) you rightly report he is thought to have achieved a world first when he gave a patient a computer printed prescription. However, the world first of having all the registered patients in a general practice with a computerised medical record was achieved a few years earlier by John Preece (1928-2021), then a single-handed GP, in the Whipton Practice in Exet…