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Virgin Media Business delivers high speed network to eight Lancashire healthcare trusts
The £9 million project will connect approximately 170 healthcare sites, including those at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Blackburn with Darwen, NHS East Lancashire, East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, NHS Central Lancashire, NHS North Lancashire and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust.
“The partners determined that Virgin Media Business was the best telco for this challenge. It not only offered the most robust and flexible product, but also the most innovative future-proof design,” said Declan Hadley, Associate Director of IM & T, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.
“Our new shared infrastructure service will enable Lancashire’s health services to collaborate in new technology projects to ensure we have information available to the clinician at the point of care, as part of our Care Closer to Home agenda. By working together, Lancashire’s healthcare community has addressed affordability issues to provide the most innovative and agile technology solutions available to significantly improve our patient services,” he said.
The project will include the delivery of wireless, Local Area Network (LAN), voice, Remote Access Service (RAS) and mobile services. It will connect 11 hospital sites, 85 health centres, clinics and surgeries, 33 mental health and social care departments, three of Her Majesty’s Prisons and 37 other NHS sites. Virgin Media Business will work in partnership with infrastructure and security specialist Imerja to install the initial stage of the project, including the development and management of a bespoke service desk.
“Technology is at the heart of delivering next generation healthcare services,” said David Astley, head of health and emergency services at Virgin Media Business. “As more local authorities, health and social care agencies gear up to deliver a personalised service for citizens in line with the Government’s personalisation agenda, organisations are likely to regard Lancashire’s collaborative partnership as an ideal example of how to achieve a total solution to meet current and future needs.”
Future phases of the network project will include videoconferencing, fixed and wireless LAN services, and business continuity initiatives.
