The service provides electronic mail, a private information library, easy access to public information resources on environmental health, and optional connection to a range of database services. With EHC net you can send a message to all environmental health users in the country within a few minutes, for the cost of a short local telephone call. In the same call you will receive the latest news and concerns from other environmental health officers and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. It offers the most reliable way of getting messages quickly to the community of environmental health officers in the UK and receiving information from them.
All connections are at local call rates.
Effective communication Messages are sent when the originator needs to send them, and delivered when the recipient is ready to receive them. Preparation and reading of information takes place when the system is off-line users work at their own pace. Answers to your questions At the heart of EHC net is the information published by your colleagues, by government and by CIEH in the form of private mail messages and bulletins - mail for short, specific messages, and bulletins for the longer, carefully considered communication. There is also an optional database facility for answers on topics as diverse as company details, addresses from postcodes and geographic information. When you connect to the network, any messages waiting for you are transferred to your PC, and filed in your In-Tray.