Leeds

Gareth Frith is base at the Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME) at Leeds University and he describes the innovative project in West Yorkshire to enable 9 NHS Trusts join eduroam as visited sites, thus enabling eduroam for clinical placement students and visiting/in situ academics. This is a new approach - the Trust uses their own commercial internet connection to facilitate the connectivity for both the authentication and resultant internet access, i.e. separate from N3. Clive Gwyther is the consultant that has worked directly with the Trusts on the implementations.

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.