Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme

Around 25 primary healthcare services in the UK's east and south-east regions have been connected to the system.

Pictured is a nurse using the system at the Colchester Garrison in Essex.

Baxter added that the system will remove the "administrative burden" on MoD staff. It currently takes around 20 minutes to transfer a soldier's medical record between locations.

At the moment, military medical records are held on non-networked computers or on paper, with service personnel likely to have more than one record as they move between different locations during their career.