NHS-HE Forum

Meeting on 17th November 2005

Notes of the meeting

Materials available (pdf's unless otherwise stated):

• Agenda
• Attendees
• Notes of the previous meeting
• NHS-HE Coordinator update: Malcolm Teague
• NHS-HE Connectivity at Brighton Sussex Medical School: Mark Packer
• N3 Update: John Hemsley
• N3 JANET Gateway(s) Working Group update: Malcolm Teague
• Ensuring equality of access (Avon, Glos & Wilts - Universities of Bristol and of West of England): Jane Williams & Martin van Eker
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight (HIOW) Partnership: Ian Wilcox
• Access to Content Update: Paul Ayris
• Phil Leahy of Athens Eduserve spoke on the initiative to allow Athens authorisations to be linked across institutions. He is looking for volunteers for pilots of this now. If you are interested please contact M.Teague@ukerna.ac.uk to be put in touch or contact Phil direct.
• National Library for Health update: Ben Toth
• The JISC's Shibboleth Programme: Terry Morrow

The Common Healthcare Educational Recordings Reusability Infrastructure - Practice, Interoperability and Ethics (CHERRI-PIE) Project was mentioned briefly in the NHS-HE Coordinator's update. A report is currently being drafted and is due in December. A near final draft will be made available as soon as possible. In the meantime there is more about this at http://www.cherri.mvm.ed.ac.uk/.

The next meeting of the NHS-HE Forum will be on 17th May 2006.