PCTs threaten GPs over computer system choice.

Reports on the dispute between Primary Care Trust (PCT) and General Practitioners (GP) in Great Britain, over computer system choice. Threat of PCTs to deny funding for information technology equipment unless GPs practice switches to a system favored by the trust; Call for the utilization of Connecting for Health computer system that spans primary and secondary care; Pressure experienced by GPs from the variety of tactics used by PCTs to force practices to accept a favored system.