An operating system for the NHS
Rob Dyke
Dr Marcus Baw
The obligatory overview slide
What we’ve made
What it can do
Why we made it
What you could do
What we’ve made
What is Linux?
What is Ubuntu?
Incomprehensible systems diagram
What it can do
An operating system for the NHS
80%
20%
Administrative
Clinical
80%
80%
80%
NHSbuntu - the ‘back office’ use-case
80%
20%
Administrative
Clinical
20%
20%
NHSbuntu - seamless clinical apps
Why we made it
An operating system for the NHS
£18,200,000
Do our sums add up?
£700 to license a new machine.
1300 machines / organisation.
20 orgs represented today.
5 year lifetime of applications.
Sources: South Devon and Torbay CCG, SXSW CIO attendee list,
Microsoft Windows lifecycle factsheet, and ‘best guestimation’
Life after the NHS EWA looks complex and expensive.
MBSA / PSA
EA / ESA
CAL / SCE
MOS / EOS / AOS
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/Licensing/licensing-programs/how-volume-licensing-works.aspx
‘Paperless 2020’ could coincide with ‘Windowsless 2020’
Put together, these facts mean:
Can’t afford to encrypt, can’t afford NOT to encrypt.
Put together, these facts mean:
NHSbuntu includes full disk encryption for free.
Windows 10 is not fit for the NHS?
Put together these facts mean:
What you could do
An operating system for the NHS
What you could do
What you should do
Questions
An operating system for the NHS