eduroam has often been extended in to the NHS to support students on clinical placement and clinicians with joint NHS and University roles in clinical research and/or education. The case studies are here. Current best attempt at a list of hospitals where eduroam is available as an SSID from the NHS wireless network is:
You can now register for the NHS-HE Forum on 22nd November at https://www.eventsforce.net/jiscevents/405/home. More details here
This is the home page for the NHS-HE Information Governance which was formed in summer 2013. It is chaired by Wendy Craig, University of Newcastle. If you would like to join then please email malcolm.teague@jisc.ac.uk
National NHS-HE Forum (also see Scotland NHS-HE Forum)
Next Meeting – November 2018, date to be agreed
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Dear All,
This is just to confirm that the N3 Janet Gateway was taken down at 5pm on Wednesday 31st January 2018. Now traffic from the old N3, now called the Transition Network, to Janet IP addresses is routed through the general Transition Network to internet gateway. (This applies to England).
eduroam has been widely extended in to the NHS and is a successful and popular support for students on clinical placement in the NHS and the academic staff supporting them, plus clinical researchers working with the NHS.
See here for a list of UK hospitals where eduroam is available
The NHS-HE Forum work on Content Issues was for many years led by Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer. Although still with his oversight, in more recent years the main role has been with Betsy Anagnostelis, Librarian at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library and Joint Biomedical Team Leader, UCL Library Services. Ann Lees of NHS Education Scotland is the link for this work in Scotland.
Scotland NHS-HE Forum
Date of Next Meeting: Autumn 2017, date to be agreed.
Details of Previous Scotland NHS-HE Forum Meetings:
Hospitals that have free patient & visitor WiFi include those below, not necessarily the same as those providing eduroam. Not quite as convenient and managed as eduroam but nevertheless a valuable facility for visiting students or academics:
Collaboration between Universities and the NHS is fundamental to all aspects of clinical education and research. There are however recent initiatives to develop this further:
AHSCs
