NHS to be using NHSmail by 2013
The head of the NHSmail programme has said that he wants “most” NHS organisations to have migrated to NHSmail by the time its current contract expires in July 2013.
News
NHSmail promises bigger mailboxes
Many NHSmail users could see the size of their mailbox doubled in response to feedback about the service, which will also move onto Microsoft’s newest Exchange platform next year. Some 80% of NHSmail accounts were capped at 200Mb at the end of 2007, in preparation for the service’s move off its Mirapoint platform and onto […]
News
NHSmail on track for London
NHS Connecting for Health has said the migration of NHSmail to the Microsoft Exchange 2007 platform is going well as it prepares to move 50,000 NHS London accounts this weekend. Will Moss, programme head of NHSmail, told E-Health Insider that four out of the migration’s 11 phases had been completed and that 122,565 live accounts […]
News
Six hundred volunteers test NHSmail
NHS Connecting for Health is planning to start “extended user acceptance testing” of the new NHSmail platform on Monday.
News
NHSmail migration to Exchange deferred
NHS Connecting for Health has written to strategic health authorities to tell them that NHSmail’s planned migration to the Microsoft Exchange platform is being deferred.
News
Decision due on NHSmail move to Exchange
Connecting for Health’s head of the NHSmail programme, Will Moss has told E-Health Insider that the DH agency will decide this month on final timing of announcing its move Microsoft Exchange, with the switch to follow soon after. CfH hopes the planned move to Exchange will re-invigorate the moribund adoption rate of NHSmail, which to date has 153,000 […]
News
New software for logging drug enquiries ready
New software that helps pharmacists in local medicine information centres to record and audit clinician enquiries about medication has been released this week, offering potential future expandability to the NHS Care Records Service and an update to some of the older, DOS-based systems. The MiDatabank system allows clinician enquiries about medication to be logged for future audit, […]
News