Alcatel-Lucent chosen by North Bristol
North Bristol NHS Trust has awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent to provide it with an advanced IP telephony system. The project is being carried out by South West Communications Group. The £2m investment will also provide an advanced communications infrastructure for a new ‘super hospital’ in Bristol, scheduled for completion in 2013. The deployment includes […]
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UCLH signs £10m communications contract
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a seven-year contract for all its mobile and fixed-line communications. The £10m managed service contract was awarded to Azzurri Communications, which will be working across all six hospitals within the trust. UCLH is one of the largest and most complex trusts in the UK. James Thomas, […]
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Nortel files for bankruptcy protection
Nortel Networks, the Canadian telecoms equipment and networks specialist, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US to enable it to restructure. Nortel provides network and telecoms services to a number of NHS trusts in the UK, including: Liverpool Women’s hospital; Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust; and IP telephony to NHS trusts in Worcester and central […]
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St Helens and Knowsley COIN speeds up comms
Over 7,500 staff working across 160 GP surgeries, health centres and acute hospitals in St Helens and Knowsley, Merseyside, are now connected to a new Community of Interest Network (COIN), enabling healthcare information to be accessed and shared across the region in real time. Deployment of the £4.2m COIN began in July last year and […]
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Worcestershire connect to COIN for joined-up working
All NHS sites in Worcestershire are to be connected to a single Community of Interest Network (COIN) to allow information and data to be shared almost instantly between staff at any time. The Worcestershire health community has signed a five year deal with BT, working in conjunction with Nortel and Microsoft, to create a unified […]
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N3 now VoIP-enabled, BT announces
BT has announced that the N3 network has now been enhanced to carry phone calls using voice over internet protocol technology (VoIP). The enhancement means that NHS trusts will now be able to make free IP phone calls using the N3 Local Gateway Service. N3’s head of marketing, Michael Cole, told EHI: “From day one, […]
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Affiniti wins £67.6m ICT services PFI deal for North Staffs
Communications integrator Affiniti has been awarded a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract worth £67.6m over 37 years to manage, design and implement all current and future ICT services for two new hospitals in North Staffordshire The company will take over responsibility for managing voice and data systems for the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and […]
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Essex awards BT VoIP over N3 contract
Essex Strategic Health Authority has awarded a contract to BT to link up all of its healthcare organisations’ phone communications with VoIP over N3, the new NHS broadband network being installed across England as part of the National Programme for IT. BT, which is also rolling out the N3 network nationally, will put IP telephony […]
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London trusts go for IP telephony
Matrix Communications has won two large-scale contracts worth around £1m to provide new Mitel IP telephony (IPT) solutions to four NHS trusts in the London boroughs of Camden and Islington. The contracts cover the Camden Primary Care Trust (PCT), Islington PCT and Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust – all served by […]
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NHS telecoms fraud survey taken on by consultancy
An international consultancy company has stepped in to fill what it says is a hole in NHS telecommunications fraud prevention services created since the wind-up of the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA). Steve Mason, senior consultant at Vega, previously worked in telecoms fraud prevention at the NHSIA before it was disbanded in April. After most of the NHSIA’s responsibilities […]
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