Patti Brennan, a nursing colleague of long-standing, is National Program Director, and gave the closing keynote at the SINI2008 conference last week. I have provided a blog report of her session elsewhere. Anyone with an interest in the development of PHRs would be well advised to look at the projects and some of the specific activities they are exploring; puts NHS Healthspace into the shade, and some of the areas they are exploring could well be models for the kinds of developments Lord Darzi’s recent review seemed to suggest we ought to be striving towards – if those responsible in the NHS were far-thinking enough and actually looked at using some of the new technologies, as opposed to the old ‘tried and trusted’ ones they seem to like to rely on.