After much deliberation and discussion, there will be BRICCS recruitment in Northampton soon.

We had a fruitful and positive telephone discussion around the IT issues on 24th January which Sanjiv (Sanjiv.Lal@…) arranged. As I understand it, the output from this is that:

1. Neil Baker will be the IT point of contact in Northampton for us, and will involve colleagues as required.

2. We will configure our existing instance of CaTissue to recognise Northampton as an additional site, with its own storage hierarchy, and all study staff at Northampton will have logins for CaTissue. CaTissue is web-based, contains no patient identifiable information and can be accessed from any standard browser.

3. We will work with colleagues in IT at Northampton and Leicester to establish Virtual Private Network (VPN) access from designated terminals in Northampton to an Onyx server within the Leicester datacentre. Northampton patients will be recruited to this Onyx which will run in parallel to the Leicester instance already running. Recruitment staff at each site will not have access to the other site's data.

4. Northampton IT staff will install and configure, with our help, the Mozilla Labs' PRISM browser, to install a webapp accessing Onyx. This is the same set-up we are using in Leicester.

5. Northampton IT staff will assist in installing the driver software for the 2d barcode reader device which Leicester BRU is supplying to Northampton for the logging of recruitment and sample barcodes.

6. The Onyx configuration will NOT be set up to access the Northampton PMI. Patient details will therefore need to be manually entered into Onyx, via the 'walk-in' function. In the event that recruitment exceeds expectations and this becomes onerous we will revisit the approach.

Northampton Personnel: Jane O'Callaghan - Cardiology Research Co-ordinator David Sprigings - Cardiologist Sanjiv Lal - Service Delivery Manager, IT Strategy and Partnerships Neil Baker - Senior Systems Administrator, IT Strategy and Partnerships

Plan now:

• Get Onyx working on the uhlbriccsext01 server, including test/training deployment, with manual patient entry
  • Add participant attributes for 'NHS number' and 'local site unique identifier' for NGH patient ID.

• Establish VPN or tunnel access between client machines and server - Neil Baker and Steve Wenlock working on this

• Visit Northampton to:
  • Verify access to CaTissue - DONE
  • Verify access to Onyx
  • Install Prism webapp on appropriate desktop machines - DONE
  • Install and test the 2d barcode reader and associated software - DONE

• Define access control list - names, email addresses, requirements for access

• Train all Northampton staff in use of Onyx and CaTissue

• Confirm ethics, data sharing agreement and other requirements in place

• Begin recruiting