National NHS-HE Forum (also see Scotland NHS-HE Forum)
Next Meeting – 24th November 2020
Details of Previous NHS-HE Forum Meetings:
NHS-HE Forum
Meeting on 12th May 2005
There were 50 attendees to a lively NHS-HE Forum meeting on 12th May 2005 at UCL.
The NHS-HE Forum work on Content Issues was for many years led by Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer. Although still with his oversight, in more recent years the main role has been with Betsy Anagnostelis, Librarian at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library and Joint Biomedical Team Leader, UCL Library Services. Ann Lees of NHS Education Scotland is the link for this work in Scotland.
Scotland NHS-HE Forum
Date of Next Meeting: Autumn 2017, date to be agreed.
Details of Previous Scotland NHS-HE Forum Meetings:
Collaboration between Universities and the NHS is fundamental to all aspects of clinical education and research. There are however recent initiatives to develop this further:
AHSCs
3 – How the NHS & HE can network securely
This stream is about securely connecting NHS and Higher Education institutions locally in recognition that models for this do exist and this may be a preferred route than national infrastructure being developed nationally. This is typically the case with the large teaching hospitals and their links to their partner Universities. It covers fixed connections but also what has become clear is the fast pace of innovation with sharing wireless networks.
a.Fixed Connections
NHS-HE Connectivity Best Practice Working Group Outputs:
1 - Access Directly from NHS desktops (***new resource added May 2013***)