Andrew Howe, a key contributor to the NHS-HE Connectivity Best Practice Working Group & now Co-Chair, describes 4 of the initiatives with the NHS at Dundee:
- Local Bi-Directional Gateway
- Reciprocal Shared Wi-Fi Service
- University and NHS VDI
- Access directly from NHS PCs
An Information Sharing Agreement between the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is described, including access to some systems. Also an initiative to deliver eduroam to a number of NHS Trusts in Yorkshire, a project plan is being drawn up to deliver this in a coordinated way.
The NHS-Higher Education Connectivity Project aims to:
Co-ordinate and support network connectivity between the NHS and Universities involved with education and research in medicine, nursing and professions allied to medicine.
And it has as its objective:
To achieve good inter-operability between NHS and Higher Education (HE) networks that enable secure anytime, anywhere access by medical, nursing and allied profession students, clinical teachers and researchers