My posting on “Sky News-copper-Cupron” drove a large amount of traffic to the blog. It would be thrilling to see just how many lives could be saved or improved with a pilot project for the bed linen.

In a separate item, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard have both written that the NHS service has frozen  a 12 billion quid computer record programme. Too many “glitches” and worse.

And yet it was only last week that I wrote about CEPCO , an Israeli software house, and its ability to collate and manage all of a patient’s medical records. If you backtrack to previous articles on this NHS failure, companies like Fujitsu, iSoft and Accenture all left the project months back.

So why CEPCO? Well the Germans have a scheme to set up something similar to the NHS. A local contractor has asked for a budget crossing the EU0.5 billion level, spread over several years. Alternatively, CEPCO can have it ready in 6 months for just a few million.

NHS fans wake up. German civil servants and politicians are working towards an operating decision on who will receive the lucrative – very lucrative – contract.