Ross was grateful that Sofie Meyer wasn"t with him. She might easily have taken offence at Nugent"s last remark.
“But surely, if every record of every person ever treated by the NHS was stored for ever, you"d need a building as big as the Great Pyramid to keep them in.”
“More like three pyramids,” Drake added.
“Ah, but, it"s a lot simpler than you think,” the pathologist said. “Most hospitals in the country have always had an archives department where records were stored and from the late seventies, as computers began to be introduced, those records were gradually transferred, originally to computer discs, and later, compressed further as technology advanced until they can now be stored on a few external memory drives. If your victims were autopsied here in Liverpool, I can find the rec
