What I've been told by Racal and confirmed by NHSTB is as follows:

The existing Kermit based Healthlink service use by most GPs for GP-HA Links and by many for GP-Hospital links is not Y2K compliant.

Racal had planned to withdraw this service and offer GPs the opportunity to switch to their Y2K compliant X.400 service.

However, I understand that they now intend to provide a Y2K compliant Kermit service and they tell me that the switch from old to new will be transparent to end users.

There are currently discussion between CSSA and Racal as we are keen to see the assertion proved.

This removes the drop dead requirement to move from Racal to NHS Net although the latter seems inevitable in anycase. 
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Ewan Davis
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-----Original Message-----
From:	Trefor Roscoe [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:	Thursday, October 08, 1998 11:43 PM
To:	GP UK
Cc:	Wisdom List; BHIA List
Subject:	How quick can you get on NHS net

I commented some time ago that RAcal have a problem with a Y2K bug in links. I had hoped for a rebuttal. I spoke on the same
platform as representatives of the Telecomunications Branch last night. Without prompting they brought this up as a problem. What
are you all going to do on the first working day of 2000 when your links don't work? If you have watched the reconcilitation that is
required after links partly falls over you would be very worried. Once it starts going wrong, unless it is switched off, the
problems multiply. Is there a mechanism for making paper based claims if links is not working, without resorting to the old
fashioned forms that we are all have forgotten how to use. Someone on one of the lists I tap into said they had switched links off,
what happened next?


Dr Trefor Roscoe
Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton,
SHEFFIELD

GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
Member of the BHIA