Managing and securing the vast amount of data on which the National Health Service (NHS) depends is a huge task. Due to the geographically dispersed nature of the NHS, vital clinical information needs to be shared and managed across a large number of staff at a number of different locations.

In addition, the huge rise in email traffic brings with it the requirement to secure the network over which it travels and to ensure that sensitive information is not sent outside of the NHS or to those to whom it is inappropriate. On top of this, the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts place obligations on NHS organisations to store information in a searchable and retrievable way.

As a worldwide leader in data security and storage management, Symantec provides the cost-effective solutions and expertise needed to help NHS organisations simply and easily manage every element of IT security and availability across the extended enterprise, from a single doctor’s surgery to a country-wide initiative.

Securing data held within remote devices through to mission critical data centres, Symantec can also help rationalise and consolidate information, manage and streamline backup procedures, enable disaster recovery and restoration of data in very short timescales, reduce the volume and cost of data storage including email and meet regulatory demands.

Symantec also has a major role to play in creating data readiness for NPfIT as a technology supplier to the Local Service Provider (LSP) community and by helping to protect the critical clinical data held in the SPINE.

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Fig 1: Symantec's NHS Solutions

This diagram outlines the different NHS Solution that Symantec offers.

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