NHS: Information and Communications Technology Mr. Bacon To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what his latest estimate is of the number of users of the Lorenzo software system at (a) Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust, (b) Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (c) University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, (d) Hereford Hospitals Trust and (e) South Birmingham Primary Care Trust; (2) what his latest estimate is of the highest number of live concurrent users of the Lorenzo software system across English NHS trusts (a) at any one time and (b) on any one day. Mr. Mike O'Brien The numbers of regular users of Release 1 of the Lorenzo software system in the national health service bodies concerned are as follows: --------------------------------------------------------- | |Number| --------------------------------------------------------- |Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust |43 | --------------------------------------------------------- |Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust|12 | --------------------------------------------------------- |University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust |96 | --------------------------------------------------------- |Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust |7 | --------------------------------------------------------- |South Birmingham Primary Care Trust |16 | --------------------------------------------------------- These figures exclude other registered users who use the system only occasionally. The highest number of live concurrent users across English NHS trusts at any one time, to date, is 19. This occurred on 6 October 2009. The number of concurrent users of the system is lower than the aggregate number of regular users because clinicians spend the majority of their time working directly with patients. Time spent using the system is relatively short, and in most care settings, users will log in and log out of the system repeatedly throughout the day.