Primary care health staff and managers in Scotland want local communities must be trusted to address their own health needs.They say the current system - though allowing the setting of local priorities - is still too ‘top down’.
A conference of Local Health Care Co-operatives (LHCCs) this week called for recognition that priorities set centrally must be complimented by a community-driven approach to healthcare. 

More than 1,200 UK online centres have launched this week to give wider access to computers and the Internet - along with plans to launch nearly as many more again.David Blunkett has launched the centres as a way of bridging the digital divide between those with access to new technology and those without.
A recent DfEE survey found that 68 per cent of professionals have used the Internet compared with 22 percent of the semi-skilled and unskilled workers.