Just what is the state of N3?
Did we really need to pay BT to come up with ADSL links? (starting at 256kb for GP’s & 8 mb for large hospitals?)
This is a solution designed in 2002 for the needs of the 90’s and currently late in delivering even that limited specification. “If you bend the truth enough it will snap” is a quote aptly describing the performance of CfH.
From other quarters we hear of GP’s miffed because the much trumpeted N3 connections provide a measly 2 MB to each surgery & they are apparently finding it difficult to use Choose & Book through this. This is before any of the advanced services such as videoconferencing & access to PACS data come into the equation. Trying to drink the ocean through a straw is an analogy that could be used here. Expectations are apparently to be managed, the people making the decisions having forgotten that by the time this overpriced, underspecified, underdeveloped & irrelevant service is fully in play, the clinical community will long have moved on.