INPS Milestones

1984: Value Added Medical Products (VAMP) was born

1987: Free schemes for VAMP became available, where GPs leased or rented a system in return for providing data and participating in research projects. This was a flawed plan that nearly forced the company into bankruptcy, but VAMP survived!

1987: The Company was split into 2 organisations: VAMP Ltd to develop and sell the VAMP system, and VAMP Research to manage the data.

1989: The Company moved into new offices in Battersea – this facility is still the headquarters for INPS today.

1993: The Company was sold to Reuters

1995: The VAMP Research database was taken over by the Government and continues to this day as the General Practice Research Database (GPRD), now hosted by the MHRA

1995: Vision was launched

1996: Competitor Micro Solutions Group was acquired. Some of the people that worked for CMSG still work for INPS today

1997: The Multilex drug file was added to Vision

1998: The Company was sold to CEGEDIM, a French organisation that specialises in healthcare IT systems and information. The name of the Company was changed to In Practice Systems Ltd.

2000: Max Brighton was appointed as Managing Director. Other than the departure of a Finance Director, the INPS Management Team has not changed since 2000.

2001: The Company joined forces with Epic to create The Health Improvement Network (THIN).

2004: The Company acquired Saragon, a leading edge software house based in Dundee. The Dundee team (know known as INPS Enterprise Solutions) has since been expanded from 8 people to over 50, and is dedicated to developing Vision 4

2005: The Company is rebranded as INPS