Ensure your organisation is fully populating the NHS National Directory
The National Directory is a central repository of contact information for all staff working for the NHS. The directory is linked to NHSmail, the central email solution for the NHS. As with all directories, its success is dependant on the quality of information it contains.
It is the responsibility of all NHS organisations to submit their local employee information up to the National Directory and maintain it thereafter. This is achieved though NHSmail connectors. There are a number of problems associated with the creation of a connector:
- Linking existing "registered" NHSmail users with local employee records.
- Ensuring local records have mandatory values expected by the connector.
- Understanding the NHSmail error and warning codes on NHSmail test and run reports.
- Automate the ongong NHS National Directory data update.
With the majority of NHS organisations running MS Active Directory, the perfect source for submitting data to the National Directory already exists.
The BDS Solutions Directory Integrator™ product provides the perfect solution for ensuring ongoing data maintenance and connector data updates are achieved in a timely, quality assured and at low cost to the organisation.
The solution includes the following activities:
- To obtain the current employee records for the organisation from NHSmail.
- To "back-match" these records to users on the local Active Directory.
- Update the Directory Integrator™ installation with this information.
- To create a connector and complete the test phase.
- To work with the organisation to resolve any error or warning records.
- To liaise with NHSmail to put the connector into production.
- To confirm the operational running of the connector and sign off the project.
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