NHS gets £40M to cut login times on its IT systems

Re:NHS gets £40M to cut login times on its IT systems by mrweasel on Sunday January 05, 2020 @11:51AM (#21962143)

Cool, I did not know that.

Why any organisation would choose to deploy regular desktops if this option exists, and why wouldn’t someone like the NHS not already be using this?

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Re:NHS gets £40M to cut login times on its IT systems by DanBC on Sunday January 05, 2020 @12:55PM (#21962684)

> and why wouldn’t someone like the NHS not already be using this?

We all say "The NHS", but it's made up of a bunch of different companies.

https://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nh...

    135 acute non-specialist trusts (including 84 foundation trusts)
    17 acute specialist trusts (including 16 foundation trusts)
    54 mental health trusts (including 42 foundation trusts) 
    35 community providers (11 NHS trusts, 6 foundation trusts, 17 social enterprises and 1 limited company)
    10 ambulance trusts (including 5 foundation trusts)11
    7,454 GP practices12
    853 for-profit and not-for-profit independent sector organisations, providing care to NHS patients from 7,331 locations13

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Re:NHS gets £40M to cut login times on its IT systems by ocdtrekkie on Sunday January 05, 2020 @11:58AM (#21962189)

Virtual desktops are a whole different ball of horror. Sometimes giving everyone a plain old PC is a ton cheaper than figuring out how to troubleshoot the super expensive nightmare server that has to handle the load of replacing everyone's PCs.

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Re:NHS gets £40M to cut login times on its IT systems by toyg on Sunday January 05, 2020 @11:56AM (#21962182)

Because Citrix is horrible and expensive, and TS is (thougth to be) too weak (and again expensive).

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