On September 24-28, 2011, the second workshop on Leprosy Management Information System (LEPMIS) in China took place in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. The workshop was organized by National Center for Leprosy Control, China CDC (NCLC) and financially supported by Netherlands Leprosy Relief. Ten participants from NCLC, Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and experts from Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong and Guangdong provinces attended the workshop.

The major contents of the workshop were to (1) Identify the table of essential field and contents in chronological sequence based on individual patients and list of leprosy patients; (2) Identify the chart of epidemiological situation of leprosy based on time or locality; (3) Draft standard patient’s records including following up records; (4) confirm the content of following up for cured cases; and (5) develop exposure draft of evaluation plan for LEPMIS in 2012. Prof. Zhang Guocheng, Deputy Director General of Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science (IOD) & the NCLC, participate the workshop. He emphasized that LEPMIS will be one of the most important contents for leprosy control programme in the coming ten years and LEPMIS will monitor the process leprosy control programme and provide evidence for developing new strategies in future. Prof. Yan Liangbing, Director of Department for Leprosy Control, and Prof. Shen Jianping, a senior staff of NCLC, also participated the workshop.

Facilitated by Dr Yu Meiwen, Leprosy Manager in NCLC, the workshop was carried out through plenary meeting, group working and section presentation. The essential field and contents for individual cases, list of leprosy patients, chart of epidemiological situation of leprosy based on time of locality were firstly discussed. During the discussion, the contents of flowing up for cured cases were also confirmed. After discussed, the contents were sent to program development. Secondly, the participants were divided into three groups, i.e. group of standard patient’s records, group of evaluation plan for LEPMIS in 2012 and group of program development. In order to make the progress and succeed and the task achieved, the achievement and plan for next day were reported by the end of every day. During developing evaluation plan, the objectives, target group, contents, methods and detail evaluation lists were discussed through plenary meeting. Based on the developed plan, the experts from four provinces pre-evaluated their LEPMIS in order to identify the score of excellent, good and qualified. After revised, the plan was delivered to provinces officially for recommendations.

After 4 days work, the workshop reached the task planed at the beginning of workshop. The workshop was successful which push the development of LEPMIS.