Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Just so nobody loses sight of it, this is about more than the IFMS. The State has to mandate systems. When we come to have an electronic health record system and spend an enormous amount of money on it, there can be no equivocation. The entire health system has to be a part of it. When we introduce a personnel management system like the national integrated staff records and pay programme, NISRP, the entire health system has to be a part of it. When we introduce lab technology, the entire health system has to be a part of it. Otherwise, we are going to have independent entities doing their own thing with public money and creating enormous differences in how the control environment and efficiency environment could ever work.