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The following paper is also available:
You may wish to visit The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust Home Page which provides additional details on current developments.
They include some useful progress reports:
Replacement 999 Telephone System
An interesting article on current state of the LAS CAD Development can be obtained Tighe, I. "All Systems Go!" in The Computer Bulletin, 8, 4, 20-21.
Some links to articles in the Risks bulletin relating to the LAS-CAD failure. Note that these are prior to the issue of the Inquiry report and based on press reports so are not wholly accurate:
London Ambulance Fiasco. 29-Oct-92
Ambulance chief quits after patients die in computer crash. 29-Oct-92
Software failure "may be behind ambulance crisis." 30-Oct-92
London Ambulance Service computer fails again. 05-Nov-92
London Ambulance Dispatch Computer. 05-Nov-92
London Ambulance Service Inquiry Report (long). 24-Mar-93
Ambulance
Dispatch System A similar case from Melbourne, Australia