This is now called "The safe share project" after briefly being called the Assured Data Access Project and during work-up as the Farr/MBI/ADRC initiative.

Jacky gives the background to the creation of the Farr Institute, Medical Bioinformatics Initiative and Administrative Data Research Centres. She then goes on to describe the work being undertaken with these centres and Janet to try and find solutions that allow data to be accessed securely, data shared safely and to support the partners to work together collaboratively. Hence two projects looking at a secure network layer over Janet and at options for authentication, authorisation, allocation and identity management (AAAI).

John describes the newly designated Health eResearch Centre for the North of England led by Manchester and puts it in the context of the new Health eResearch Network that involves all four centres (the three others led by Dundee, London and Swansea).