All-Singing-All-Dancing
Internet Accessibility, Security, etc. OPERA Internet Browser. Free version. Block
pop-ups, see websites as they were meant to be - unfuddled by Internet
Explorer and Netscape bugs - or exactly how YOU want to see them! User
friendly and probably the best Internet Browser in the world - did I
mention that there is even a free version? Cannot be too highly
recommended.
ECDL - Allied Health Professions - pdf file
ECDL - European Computer Driving Licence - Basic IT Skills Standard for
the NHS : Allied Health Professions. Equivalent documents for other NHS
staff groups simply quote different, relevant "satisfied users".
ECDL - Basic I.T. Skills
Training For All NHS Staff
ECDL is a flexible, modular qualification designed to cover the key
concepts of IT and its practical application in the workplace. It is
estimated that a complete novice should be able to complete the whole
qualification in about 100 hours while those with some IT skills can
complete it in as few as 20 hours. The on-line learning programme will
be delivered by a consortium led by Spring IT Training and including
Learn ECDL, and NCC Education. The consortium is the preferred
supplier, selected by the NHS Information Authority, and will offer a
national tracking and monitoring service for ECDL registrations and
access to the learning and testing materials.
ECDL - FAQs from
Communities (eg. NHS Trusts)
Do we have to be an Accredited Test Centre to Teach Staff? Do we have
to pay the BCS fee of £350? What do we have to do to become a test
centre? How do I contact the National Team? Will there be national
money to back fill staff time? Do we have to alter our network
configuration to run the software?
ECDL - NHS Homepage
The European Computer Driving Licence was established in 1988 by the
Finnish Computer Society and was quickly adopted as a National Standard
in IT competency in that country. During the early 1990's the
curriculum was developed and adopted by the EU member states as a
European Award. In 1996 the British Computer Society decided to promote
the ECDL within the UK and since that time the number of people
registering per year has grown to approximately 200,000 people in the
UK. Further information on ECDL ,access for NHS staff and useful links.
ECDL - NHS Voucher Scheme
"There are over a million staff employed in the NHSA in England and we
want to be able to offer every NHS employee the opportunity to gain the
ECDL qualification. The voucher scheme is the entry point to ECDL for
all staff. The voucher scheme allows the individual to assess their
ability and need to embark on the qualification prior to registering
with the British Computer Society (BCS). It would be too expensive and
may devalue the qualification if we were to issue every member of staff
with a Log Book before establishing their commitment to taking the
qualification."
ECDL - Project Update(Jan 2003) pdf file
Extract: "The Department of Health has set the following targets for
health communities within this year's advice as part of the financial
planning framework: • All person specifications must show a required
competence in the Basic IT Skills by March 2005; • On appointment all
NHS Staff must hold the ECDL or equivalent, or commit to gaining it
within 2 years from April 2003; • All NHS staff must have IT Skills
equivalent to the "Getting Started" and 40% of staff to have gained the
ECDL by March 2005; • All local health communities within each StHA
will have 2 fully accredited ECDL test centres by December 2003."
Email Lists FAQ'S
Information for anyone new to email lists and groups or the Internet in
general. Explains what email lists and groups are, and how they work.
Email
Primer
Most of the material presented in this primer was published originally
in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Internet E-Mail, by Paul McFedries,
now sadly out of print.
Internet Efficiency: Download
Accelerator
Free trial version. Full version is not free, but if you are thinking
of downloading lots of things, it will save you time, and if time is
money, it will save you money.
Internet Security:
Messenger Spam Blocking
Free download to "Stop Messenger Spam" or see links on the "Stop
Messenger Spam" home page for instructions to change your computer
settings to block those pesky grey boxes!
Internet Security: Spam Advice from Yahoo! Groups
*** IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ THIS PAGE ON YAHOO!***
Spam is any message or posting, regardless of its content, that is sent
to multiple recipients who have not specifically requested the message.
Spam can also be multiple postings of the same message to newsgroups or
list servers that aren't related to the topic of the message. Other
common terms for spam include UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and
UBE (unsolicited bulk email). Is it possible for a spammer to gather
email addresses from Yahoo! Groups?
Internet Security: Spam
Protection With Mailwasher
Free download. Powerful email checker with effective spam elimination.
Mailwasher works by checking your "pop email" or "hotmail" inbox before
you download emails into your email program, eg. Outlook.
Internet
Security: Spyware Clean-Up
"Spybot Search and Destroy", free download. If you have not been
protecting your computer from Spyware, this program will clean it up
for you.
Internet Security: Stop Pop-Ups
and More
Secure IE lets you block those irritating adverts that pop up all the
time. Also blocks some types of computer hacking and lets you open
multiple websites in one browser window. Not free, but better than
Internet Explorer and said to compare favourably with Opera and
Netscape.
Internet Security: Virus
Protection
AVG Anti-Virus Guard - Free Download. If you don't have virus
protection then sooner or later you WILL get a virus, either through an
email, from a website or simply through using Microsoft Outlook or
Internet Explorer.
Netiquette
Link to Yahoo list of pages and sites with advice for "newbies" to the
Internet.
NHS INL (Informatics
Learning Networks) e-Community - National Homepage
This project, managed by the Ways of Working with Information (now
NHID) programme, also provides a web based eCommunity where members
(and others) can come together to find out more about Learning
Informatics Networks, as well as enter discussion on important IM&T
subjects. This virtual support environment encourages
multidisciplinary, nation-wide IM&T debate in an environment aimed
at addressing IM&T from a clinical rather than technical
perspective. National overview, results of national surveys, etc. Links
to all regional eCommunities.
NHS INL
(Informatics Learning Networks) Planning Survey
Tell the NHS about your IT training needs. "In order to help the
Informatics Learning Network Project Managers plan future events they
would like to identify your training needs i.e. what you want to know
and find out about health informatics. It would also be helpful if you
could provide feedback on you prefer to learn. Your responses will
remain anonymous, unless you state that you are happy for your
responses to be used and attributed to you. All questions relate to the
Informatics Learning Network (previously called Regional Learning
Network)."
NHSnet
NHSnet is a secure wide area network connecting NHS organisations
managed for the NHS by BT and Cable and Wireless. Electronic mail
service is provided by Syntegra. NHSnet is also known as the NHS
Intranet and it is the largest Virtual Private Network in Europe
providing a: Similar range of communication and information services to
that of the Internet Dedicated NHS network with guaranteed service and
availability Secure and controlled environment for healthcare
information.
PDF
Files - How to convert to Web Pages
If you have to download a pdf file to read it, this web tool lets you
covert the pdf file to a normal web page so you can decide whether or
not you want to download it. 1. Open the Acrobat converter (link
below). 2. Open a new window for the web page with the pdf link. 3.
Right click on the link to the pdf file. 4. Click "copy shortcut" in
the drop-down menu. 5. Go to the Acrobat converter web page. 6. Paste
the pdf file shortcut in the box next to the word "URL" on the Acrobat
page. 7. Click the button that says, "Get this Adobe PDF document as
HTML". 8. You will see a very simple page without all the graphics of
the original. If you do not like the look of the HTML page, click your
"back" button to go back to the converter, tick the "Reflow paragraphs"
box and try again.
