I have to agree...
Here we're having problems getting the University of Plymouth resources unblocked on N3 (though they worked fine before N3, strangely enough...) We have both university of Exeter and NHS networks in our building, and neither is 100% reliable.
Situations that have proved most amusing recently (apart from the example above) include:
- trying to explain to NHS IT why we would like to have Flash installed on our computers so that one of our radiologists could actually use the software on an NHS-funded course they were doing..
- trying to look at the NHS commissioned elearning package on infection control and discovering it actually doesn't work on our hospital network...
- my boss having to explain to the IT department why we needed Map of Medicine allowed through the firewall....
In my experience there's a MASSIVE gap between what the makers and commissioners of such software think the NHS can access and what those NHS staff can actually get at! It might be okay for staff in the centre (e.g. DH) but for those of us at the coalface things are a lot different. Think it's more likely to be N9 before this is resolved...! So in the circumstances I have to say the whole Web 2.0 thing just sounds completely impractical. And I don't think we're the only NHS Trust in this situation by a long shot.
Paula Younger
Electronic Resources Librarian
Exeter Health Library
1st Floor, Peninsula Medical School Building
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
Barrack Road
Exeter
EX2 5DW
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From: Discussion list for Health Libraries Group HLG members on behalf of Alan Fricker
Sent: Wed 25/07/2007 14:56
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: July 2007 snapshot of UK HE and FE developments in Second Life
I think the computing / network requirements for SL place it out of
reach for the NHS at present (leaving aside the acceptability to NHS ICT
departments).
One would expect that the fullness of time (N6 perhaps?) might give us
the necessary bandwidth and the falling price of hardware may eventually
give us the desktop capability but we are not there yet.
The concept of virtual reference might be something to explore in the
nearer future (he says imaging the conversation with the local network
people about why I want chat and IM unblocked).
Cheers
Alan
Alan Fricker
Knowledge & Library Service Manager
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust
Glen Road, Plaistow
E13 8SL
www.newlib.demon.co.uk
Tel: 020 7363 8016
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From: Discussion list for Health Libraries Group HLG members
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frank Norman
Sent: 25 July 2007 14:07
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Subject: Re: July 2007 snapshot of UK HE and FE developments in Second
Life
I think you need to ask NLH/NKS etc about that. A number of
developments that started in HE and research have moved over to the
healthcare sector. Second Life may be another.
At 12:36 25/07/2007, Parker Richard (RBK) Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust
wrote:
>Good for them, but what about in health care?
Frank Norman
Librarian, National Institute for Medical Research The Ridgeway, Mill
Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK
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