NHS Digital: The Health and Social Care Network Programme : NHS Digital
The Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) Programme was initiated to:
The expectation was that HSCN would provide the underlying network connectivity to enable the integration and transformation of health and social care services, by enabling health and care organisations to obtain public (internet) and private network services over a single connection at highly competitive prices, while being able to share information more reliably, flexibly and efficiently.