We intend to have the compressed JPEG images available for any General Practitioner in the country to have access to, when he is consulting his diabetic patients, provided he wishes to have access to the retinal images.  With all the General Practices being connected via Healthnet this should be possible.  We intend to connect the first practices to  our NT server so that they can access the images and reports in the near future.  **UPDATE JANUARY 2002** - Our number of diabetic subjects is increasing (we now have 13,700) on our register and we have, therefore, only managed a
biannual service.  We would like to increase the capacity to provide an annual service.  We would also like to link our service into an electronic health record for general diabetes care.

