> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
> Sent: 27 November 1998 13:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: RE: NHS Net SMTP problems are being worked on
>
>
> [log in to unmask],Net wrote at 10:19 on 27/11/98
> about "RE: NHS Net SMTP problems are being worked on":
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> >OK so there are about ten, so what was the argument and is it really
> afected
> >by 10 out of 30,000 GP's having networks at home?
>
> The argument was that _even_ if a GP's computer at home is networked
> rather than shared by other family members...
> part of the security needs for GPNet and therefore properly a charge
> on the security budget of GPNet is to provide the same secured
> access to other family members as to the GP.
>
> that this is of minimal cost, given that the GP should have a
> connection from home and that the connection time on GPNet is not an
> individually identifiable expense
>
> that GPs may quite reasonably elect to go home at 1800 and not
> depart for work until 0800, and therefore may need access to pateint
> records in order to maintain the highest standards, during th margin
> hours of their co-op and the latter part of eg Satruday mornings
>
> that GPs who wish to do some of their work at home should not be
> prevented from doing so effectively, nor should they be barred from
> being at home at lunchtime, but still able to work with all practice
> records
>
> If GPs have networks at home, then the security problems are
> reduced, but not abolished.
>
> We are heading for the pervasive network, for all the world, and I
> do not see why anyone as clever as trefor wants to build a network
> which requires one to go to a particular place in order to do
> things.
>
> I am at home, I have just referred a patient I saw yesterday to the
> new chest pain clinic, I don't want to stay at the practice waiting
> for people to be unengaged, nor leave jobs for that much longer. Of
> course, if we had networked booking I could have done it when I got
> home from the branch that day, or as a background activity in a gap
> in surgery today. It would not have been more efficient to
> delegate,, for various reasons.
> --- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley
>
(/devils advocate)
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