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The article reports that the National Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain and councils in Devon and Cornwall, England are ahead of the rest of the country with plans to pool public sector information. However, contract problems have already delayed the project by a year. The 13 different agencies that signed an information sharing contract in 2007 were the first large group of public sector bodies that had made a legally binding commitment to share information over a common information technology (IT) infrastructure. The 13 agencies also agreed to interface their existing social care systems. Devon and Cornwall's councils and NHS trusts have been quicker to share information than the public sector in the rest of England.