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GCSX and NHS

Anna SmithImplementation & Service Delivery Manager, Government Connect

October 2010

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GCSX and NHS connectivityGCSX and NHSMail

• Already able to share Patient Identifiable Data securely via email between NHSmail users and GCSX users

GCSX-N3 Interconnect Project

• Government Connect now leading a joint project with DH and NHS delivering secure bi-directional connectivity between GCSX and N3 (GCSX/N3 Gateway)

Benefits

• Cost effective N3 connectivity using existing infrastructure

• Improved business cooperation between local authorities and NHS Trusts

Costs

• Establishment of service and running costs to 31 March 2011 funded by Government Connect

• Costs thereafter will be published later this year

• Indicative costs represent good value compared to separate N3 connectivity

• Aim is to ensure costs to users reflect cost to provide the service and user costs to decrease as number of service users goes up

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The Government Secure Intranet

GSI

PSIGateway

Gateway

DWP

HMRC

Home Office

DCSF

DCLG

Many others

GovernmentGateway

GSX

GSE

Suppliers

NHS.net CJSM JARDPNN

Citizen

LocalAuthorities

(England & Wales)

GCSX

LocalAuthorities(Scotland) National Health Service Secure Email

Criminal Justice Secure MailPolice National Network

Joint Asset Recovery Database

GSifamily

MoJ

NHS (N3)

National Apps

(Spine)

NHS Trust Apps

Other public sector

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What will the GCSX/N3 Interconnect Enable?

Local Authority Access to N3 Spine Services

• Available to local authority GCSX customers

• Local authorities must be compliant with the NHS Information Governance Toolkit ‘Social Care Delivery’ view

• N3 service to be ordered through the existing GSi Request for Change Process

• Authentication to Spine services will be managed through local Registration Authority arrangements

• Service will be managed as a GCSX service

Access to NHS Organisations’ Local Applications

• PCTs can request to make their own internal applications available for appropriate local authority view

Access to Local Authorities’ Local Applications

• LAs can request to make their own internal applications (e.g. Social Care Application) available for appropriate NHS organisation view.