"About one in three UK family doctors’ practices use a computer program made by the IT company TPP" instead of online calculators such as www.qrisk.org "Last m

"About one in three UK family doctors’ practices use a computer program made by the IT company TPP" instead of online calculators such as www.qrisk.org "Last month the firm told the UK government that there is a problem with the software, and it has been overstating the risk for some people, while understating it for others. The government informed GPs of this on Wednesday." Statins are controversially prescribed to people deemed at risk of illnesses such as stroke and heart disease e.g. if they exhibit risk factors such as smoking, or family history of these diseases. "The software has been used since 2009." There's some political "flavour" in the last half of the article about time-pressures faced by GPs, targets, guidelines, and the fact that risk-factors should not be used as the sole justification for prescribing statins. Can't find anything on "TPP". Non-paywalled versions of the story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/11/statins-glitch-means-thousands-may-have-been-incorrectly-prescri/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/11/statins-glitch-me... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36274791 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36274791