NHS-HE Forum

Meeting of 24th November 2010 in Manchester

Materials available (pdf's unless otherwise stated):

• Programme
• Attendees
• The Leeds Medical School iPhone Initiative in the context of developments in mobile working: Gareth Frith
• Access from the NHS to University teaching and learning facilities - local issues: Natalie Lafferty and Andrew Howe
• Public Sector Network (PSN) developments as a context for NHS-HE and other inter-sector connectivity in the Future: Ian Wilcox
• Update from Australia – Eduroam development: Alex Reid
• N3 JANET Gateway Phase II Plans: Malcolm Teague
• Re-Using Healthcare recordings: update – principles and good practice guidance: Jane Williams
• Pathways to Open Resource Sharing through Convergence in Healthcare Education (PORSCHE) project: Suzanne Hardy
• Manchester AHSC Vision and Developments:  Professor Christoper Griffiths

Follow-up actions agreed at the meeting:

• From Natalie and Andrew’s session, and from the Scotland NHS-HE Forum meeting in June, it is clear that there needs to be more work on a coordinated approach to overcome local access to applications that support learning in particular but also research. As was made clear in the presentation many useful tools and resources can be blocked by local NHS firewall and desktop policies which vary across organisations and yet there is no clear place or guidance on what is good, common or acceptable practice and possibly also why it matters from an NHS perspective. It was agreed that we would find a way of developing at least some common and good practice guidance and make it available via this website and anywhere else willing to take it. We will need some volunteers to help with this, may be a virtual working group reporting back to the Forum.
• Natalie suggested an agreed list of web tools and services that we recommend be allowed for access from the NHS, possibly with examples and experiences from those Trusts which already allow them. This would be an extension to the approach taken by the SHA Library Leads IM&T Group have produced a list of knowledge resource urls that should not be blocked   http://www.libraryservices.nhs.uk/forlibrarystaff/information/technology.html. They too are thinking about web 2.0 tools and there may be an opportunity for some joint work here. It definitely seems something to pursue as part of 1.
• We agreed that the NHS-HE Forum would respond as a collective group to the “Liberating the NHS: An Information Revolution” (www.dh.gov.uk/informationrevolution ) consultation. Ted is considering how best to approach this and to make the key points which emerged yesterday. The closing date is 14th January. Please of course don’t let this stop individual responses as well.