Microsoft NHS Licensing

Scotland

Up until June 2009, NHS Scotland held a central licensing arrangement with Microsoft - called an Enterprise Agreement (EA) - that provided software licences to all personal computers (including desktops and laptops) for specific core Microsoft products across all of the eligible NHS organisations in Scotland. The agreement also comprised of specific software assurance benefits for employees, such as access to the Home User Programme, Employee Purchase Programme and Microsoft eLearning - all available on the NHS Resource Centre.

This EA was a three year agreement running until June 2009. Unfortunately the agreement has now expired and has not been renewed which means that the terms of this agreement are no longer applicable. Scottish NHS users who purchased Microsoft Office via the Home User Programme throughout the lifetime of the previous agreement are now no longer entitled to use this licence and should uninstall the software.

NHS employees in Scotland may of course continue to use the other aspects of the NHS Resource Centre and take advantage of all of the other benefits not specific to the EA. These are:

• Access to the private NHS online community which includes: creating and participating in groups, customising your homepage, adding content, participating in discussion forums etc.
• Access to ad hoc competitions, such as the monthly WeeMee avatar competition, our Bollywood or Festive Calendar competitions for example
• Access to 50% off Microsoft Press books via the Online Bookshop on the NHS Resource Centre
• Access to all of the content, hosted on the NHS Resource Centre
• Access to our free eNewsletters