TY - JOUR T1 - ALAS MTAS! JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 593 LP - 593 VL - 57 IS - 540 AU - Neville Goodman Y1 - 2007/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/540/593.abstract N2 - You couldn't want a better example of the Blair effect on health than MTAS. Ill-advised (because doctors were barely consulted), rushed, expensive, and entirely dependent on computers, Patricia Hewitt's declaring it dead was probably one of her final acts as Secretary of State for Health. To paraphrase the poet: ‘How did it fail us? Let us count the ways.’ Blogs, bulletin boards, and e-letters to journals have documented a disaster far worse than the petty inefficiencies of the NHS about which doctors are … ER -