> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of David Sydenham
> Sent: 30 November 1998 15:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Home networks
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> In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
> In car today and heard you and yours programme about NHS Net being used by
> patients in Children s hospitals to access internet and web sites - This
> really means that the NHS Net is not secure in any way at all.
>
> Can we continue to support it?
>
> David
>
They are using it in the Childrens Hospital in Derby (and possibly Sheffield) to access educational material and to communicate with
other childrens units such as Great Ormond Street. Helps kids with long term illness be educated.
Again I ask, what is the problem? Why does this really mean that it is not secure. What is the difference between patients in a
childrens hospital and GP's kids using it, as Midge is suggesting. The firewall/virus software will prevent accidental and
deliberate downloading of potentially damaging material and they cannot get into anything they shouldn't because of other security
such as passwording. Why should the use of NHSnet be a problem. Better that they use that than they use the internet as it is
available in the hospital and in effect, free. To set up a separate internet conection would cost more money as they would need a
modem and a phone line and an isp and and and
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton,
SHEFFIELD
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
Member of the BHIA
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