all providers including gps hospitals and pharmacies and patients will participate in ehealth in which they can share data on patients including their diagnoses health care services received such as diagnosis and treatment and medication prescribed and purchased it is anticipated that patients will use a card containing their unique patient id to pay for all health services and medications allowing their health care utilisation data to be collected providers will need to provide information about patients including their diagnoses treatment provided and medication prescribed in order to get reimbursed by nhs and this will be linked with the utilisation data in the ehealth system the system should allow access to health information via the internet allowing patients to engage more in taking control of their own health conditions