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8 February 2007

BT hits 18,000 N3 connections ahead of schedule

BT has announced that it has successfully reached the 18,000 N3 broadband connections across the NHS, hitting its milestone two months ahead of
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24 January 2007

Patients to rate care received using new NHS website

The government is to set up a new website to allow patients to publish and share reviews of care recived from GPs
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23 January 2007

Don’t pay for additional N3 bandwidth, PCTs told

Primary care trusts (PCTs) have been told that current N3 broadband links provide enough bandwidth to run all Connecting for
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2 January 2007

Discussions underway on 8Mb broadband for GPs

NHS Connecting for Health is in discussions with N3 BT about providing an 8Mb broadband service which could provide GP
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19 December 2006

BT investigates slow connections for GPs

N3 provider BT has been investigating ways in which it might improve its service for GP practices using the EMIS
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12 December 2006

Choose and Book system fails nationally

Unspecified technical problems led to Choose and Book, the NHS’s new national appointment booking service, being unavailable to users for
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7 December 2006

N3 Internet gateway fails across NHS

Users of the NHS broadband network across England were left unable to access the internet for about two hours on
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5 December 2006

NHS broadband network provider wins ISO accreditation

BT has announced that its NHS New National Network service provider arm (N3SP), the unit within BT responsible for building
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28 November 2006

CfH GP group to discuss N3 speed problems

GP practices’ concerns about N3 are to be discussed at the next meeting of NHS Connecting for Health’s GP Pan
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24 November 2006

Fair Deal on Broadband: BT responds

When E-Health Insider Primary Care launched Fair Deal on Broadband, we asked BT to give its perspective on the issues
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