A one day conference on this topic was organised jointly by the Royal
College of Physicians (RCP), the National Health Service (NHS) Trainin
g Directorate and the Institute for Health Services Management in Sept
ember 1993. The aim of the meeting was to make clinicians, senior nurs
es, clinical directors, managers and directors of public health aware
of the importance of collection, communication and use of high quality
information within the health services.