we couldnt access emails or indeed internet for at
least 48 hrs
why should damage to wires in one tunnel have such a
devastating effect|?
a gift to terrorists -no?
marya
--- Julian Bradley <[log in to unmask]>
wrote: > At 06:56 08/04/04, Mary Hawking forwarded
from
> "Karen" :
>
> >Hi all
> >I have been asked by my nearest and dearest to let
> you all know about
> >the difficulties over the last week in Buxton. Loss
> of phone links for 3
> >days due to fire in Manchester resulted in chaos
> here. Little reported
> >in the press, probably because it was up north.
> >No cash available, banks closed, shops and garages
> only able to take
> >cash which of course you couldn't get cos the banks
> and cash points were
> >closed.
> >No 999 calls, no NHS direct.Only one moblie phone
> network worked. OOH
> >co-op functioned only because we had an orange
> phone they could use.
> >Anyway to get to the point. How would the NPfIT
> solution of central
> >servers fair under such circumstances. Would there
> still be a sever with
> >patient data held in each practice.
> >Am I asking impossible questions??
> >Cheers
> >Karen
>
> If this wasn't an April fool there are implications
> about it not making the
> news.
>
> Why a limitation to one mobile phone network -
> doesn't seem to make
> technical sense.
>
> Actually our telephone network seems to have a fair
> degree of resilience,
> BUT that doesn't lessen my anxiety re NPfIT.
>
> Let's hear a little more.
>
> Julian
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Dr Mary Anderson MRCGP
Heaton Moor Medical Centre
SK4 4NX
tel 0161 432 0671
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