NHS email encryption

[Roland Perry]

In article <46CEE726.5000806@defoam.net>, "Dr Adrian Midgley (In the 
office)" <amidgley2@defoam.net> writes
>Any patient identifiable information sent from an ordinary email 
>account (eg ekcpct.nhs.uk or gp-g80000.nhs.uk) is not fully encrypted 
>and therefore open to interception and would constitute sending details 
>outside the EEA.

Hold on, are they saying that the server that does nhs.uk emails is 
located outside the EEA?!?

mail.nhs.uk is allegedly 212.137.44.179, which is somewhere in cw.net; 
Sheffield according to one geolocation tool, Manchester another, London 
a third (did anyone say geolocation was an inexact science?)
-- 
Roland Perry