NPfIT progress so far
Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the NHS National Programme for IT.
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The frustrations of GP e-mail
In the first of a new series of columns from a grassroots GP, Dr Neil Paul describes his experiences with e-mail.
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NHSmail users have mailbox shrunk
NHS staff who use the health service’s email service NHSmail have been informed that after a recent move to Microsoft Exchange their mailbox size has been capped. Some 80% of NHS accounts have been capped at just 200Mb, which appears miserly compared with the hefty 6Gb offered by Gmail for free, or the 5Gb offered […]
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Concerns raised over corporate use of NHSmail
Concerns about the future direction of the NHS’s private email service have ben raised after it was used for the first time for a corporate broadcast by the Department of Health on future policy plans. The message from health minister Lord Darzi on his proposed reforms of the NHS was sent out to all 180,000 […]
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NHSmail promotes free SMS for reminders
NHSmail users are being encouraged to use the system’s free text messaging to remind patients about healthcare appointments. Contractors, Cable & Wireless’ head of frameworks, Ian Fowler, told E-Health Insider: “Since we launched the NHSmail service, we have seen the use of the SMS functionality grow. Currently we are seeing around 250,000 texts sent across the service […]
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Community pharmacists to get NHSmail
Community pharmacists in England are to get access to NHSmail for the first time from the beginning of 2008. Until now the 10,000 community pharmacists in England have not been able to use NHSmail to securely exchange data with NHS colleagues by email, though it has been available to their counterparts in NHS Scotland. C&W, […]
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Connecting for Health extends Microsoft licensing deal
Microsoft and NHS Connecting for Health have renewed their Enterprise Wide Agreement (EWA), following the completion of the first three years of the contract. The agreement covers most of the Microsoft Desktop and personal productivity software for up to 850,000 NHS users. The deal for the first time covers Microsoft Exchange and includes anti-virus technology […]
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NHSmail to move to Microsoft Exchange
NHSmail, the email and directory service for the NHS, will undergo a technology refresh, transitioning from its existing Mirapoint platform to Microsoft Exchange 2007, Cable & Wireless has announced. The company, who have maintained the NHSmail service for Connecting for Health since 2004, says they became aware of Microsoft Exchange 2007 last December and began […]
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NHSmail to migrate users to Mirapoint server
NHSmail is to migrate to a new message server and infrastructure after suppliers Cable and Wireless signed a contract with infrastructure provider Mirapoint. The new system was piloted on an initial 200,000 accounts. C&W plan to migrate all 1.3m users of NHSmail over the next 12-18 months, and all users will still be able to […]
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Autoforwarding to be downgraded in NHSmail
Connecting for Health have announced automatic forwarding from its email service NHSmail to most e-mail addresses – including site-specific NHS addresses ending in ‘nhs.uk’ – will be turned off at the end of the month for security reasons. From 30 September, any automatic forwarding of messages to email addresses outside the government secure network will be […]
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