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Live-streaming Olympics could slow N3

NHS staff are being warned against live-streaming their favourite Olympics events because of the pressure it will put on the
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N3 GP refresh to roll-out this year

The GP Next Generation Access project will increase bandwidth on N3 for 70% of English GP practices by March next
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What did NPfIT ever do for GPs?

Many of the national projects developed by the National Programme for IT in the NHS relied on the buy-in and
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NHS “on board” with PSN programme

The NHS is “fully on board” with the Public Services Network programme, despite having serious concerns about it just one
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N3 deal given two more years

The Department of Health is set to extend its N3 contract with BT for another two years; but is starting
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Local authorities link up to N3

The Department of Health and the Department of Work and Pensions have announced that local authorities can now securely access
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N3 ‘stifling innovation’

The N3 network is stifling innovation, preventing sharing of information and addressing fundamentally the wrong security question, a question time
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LMCs want IT performance standards

GPs have called upon the BMA’s GP Committee to negotiate minimum performance standards for IT systems, arguing that these would
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The SCR in ten points

The future direction of the Summary Care Record is likely to be revealed in two weeks’ time. Below is EHI
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Berkshire to save £150k with NHSmail

Berkshire Shared Services has completed the migration of all its GP practices to NHSmail, resulting in an expected cost saving
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