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- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Gains Rapid Returns With Pre-Approved Financial and Purchasing Solutions
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust provides healthcare services to more than 200,000 people in southwest England. The company wanted to implement best-practice, integrated, automated, managed financial and purchasing management applications from a supplier approved by the NHS National Service Framework. The challenge was to select a solution already used by other...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Health Care, Supplier, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Marketing
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- NHS Trust Reduces Perimeter Security Servers by 66 Per Cent
- Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust was one of the first organisations to connect to N3, the new broadband link delivering key services electronically to NHS Trusts in England. As part of this project, Salisbury needed to replace its existing firewall solution, which was expensive, complicated to manage, and failed to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Perimeter Security, Trust, Business Structures, Firewalls, Network Security, Directory Services, Servers, Security, Finance, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2005-11-29
- Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Drives Efficiencies Through Innovative Technology
- One of the first ten NHS foundation trusts in England, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides general and emergency services to Hackney and the City of London as well as specialist care in key disciplines. The trust wanted to streamline and automate financial management and purchasing. The challenge was...
- Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
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- U.K. Mental Health Trust Improves Knowledge Transfer With Technical Support Contract
- Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust wanted to transfer knowledge to its IT people to improve operational excellence and prepare to bid for NHS Foundation Trust status. The Trust replaced its disparate IT support contracts with Microsoft Services Premier Support, providing access to a dedicated Microsoft Technical Account Manager. As...
- Tags: Knowledge, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-04-26
- Computer Software Group Case Study: Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
- Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust was established on 1 April 1992 under the NHS Community Care Act 1990. In order to improve its CNST rating, CNST auditors told Aintree it needed to provide improved traceability of all training delivered - whether that be mandatory training or smaller "On the job" instances...
- Tags: Hospital, Training, Computer, Workforce Management, Productivity, Human Resources
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- Specialist Women's Healthcare Provider Implements New Information Management System
- Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust is England's largest specialist women's healthcare provider. As operational requirements became more complex, the Trust's IT infrastructure grew more challenging. The number of servers storing data rose and increasingly employees found it time consuming to locate information distributed around the network. Plus, with the existing...
- Tags: Information Management, Dell Computer Corp., Women, Health Care Company, Health Care, Liverpool Women, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
- Case studies 2006-09-25
- NHS Trust Looks to the Web to Build the Foundation for Better Patient Care
- Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust WWLNT has taken important steps towards the realisation of electronic patient records by using the Microsoft .NET Framework, and implementing Case Notes, a Web-based system from Microsoft partner CSW, to provide a single view of patients. WWLNT is able to build new clinical applications...
- Tags: Web, Patient, Microsoft Corp., WWLNT
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- HP Case Study: Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust
- Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest Teaching and tertiary Acute Trust in the UK and consists of three major acute teaching hospitals and smaller units across the City. Due to the critical nature of the information a robust Disaster Recovery facility, and fault tolerant service...
- Tags: Hospital, Hewlett-Packard Co., Healthcare
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- New Email System Is Just the Tonic for Local NHS Trust
- Carmarthenshire NHS Trust recognised the growing role email was playing at its two main hospitals, and embarked on an IT project to roll-out not only a new application but also an upgraded infrastructure with optimised storage and backup capabilities. As a result, nurses and doctors now have much greater access...
- Tags: Computacenter, Email System, E-mail, Backups, Online Communications
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- TAP Training Skills: Working at the Heart of the NHS
- On 25th April 2005 three members of the ICT Training Team from the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust joined other delegates attending a five day Training Delivery Skills course operated by The Training Foundation at its Coventry training centre, Sandra Finn, Chantel Brooks and Lucy Peter all achieved the...
- Tags: Training, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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- Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust Adopts E-Business Solution to Automate Key Processes, Sees Net Benefits of £1.2 Million Over Five Years
- Cardiff & Vale National Health Service NHS Trust in Wales has a dual mandate: deliver high quality care to all its citizens and ensure that their taxes, which pay for the system, are spent wisely. In 1999, Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust joined with 11 other Welsh trusts in mapping...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Oracle Corp., Benefit, Procurement, E-business, Web Technology, Portals, Supply Chain Management (SCM), E-business/E-Commerce, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance
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- NHS Trust Chooses Dell as Long-Term Strategic Partner to Deliver Better Patient and Public Services
- James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust needs to maintain a high-standard of patient care. To do so it must ensure that its technology infrastructure can fully support its day-today operations. With a high level of service and support, and a range of resilient technology solutions, the Trust has chosen Dell to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Patient, Partnership, Business Structures, Finance
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- Barts and the London NHS Trust Uses Care Records Pilot for Complete Desktop Refresh
- Barts and the London NHS Trust BLT is known throughout the medical world as one of the United Kingdom's top teaching hospital trusts. BLT took the opportunity of the U.K.-wide NHS Care Records Service CRS deployment to retire its multiple desktop operating systems and seek a common environment that was...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Desktops, Finance, Hardware
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- The Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust Provides Quick and Easy Access to Critical Information
- The Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust is one of 600 NHS Trusts. The Trust needed a system that provided effective document management as well as effective content management. With more than 35 clinical specialties and more than 40 departments requiring the ability to publish clinical and departmental information, it was essential...
- Tags: Hospital, Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Content Management, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- NHS Fife Lists 90 Per Cent of Staff in U.K. National NHS Directory
- NHS Fife is responsible for maintaining and improving the health of the population of Fife, Scotland. Identity management and synchronisation is a major challenge for NHS Fife due to the number of users of e-mail messaging systems (7,000 in total). To comply with directives from NHS Scotland, it is necessary...
- Tags: U.K., Messaging, Microsoft Corp., NHS Fife, E-mail, Microsoft Development Tools, Groupware, Databases, Online Communications, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Case Study: eProcurement in the NHS - NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency
- The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency works with around 400 NHS trusts and health authorities and manages 3,000 national purchasing contracts, influencing around half of the £7 billion spent in the NHS on purchasing goods and services in the health service in the UK. More than 100 NHS organisations and...
- Tags: Agency, E-procurement, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- 1,000th NHS Trainer Achieves TAP Qualification
- When Chantal Brookes, a trainer from the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, was awarded a TAP Certificate in Training Delivery Skills on 25 April, she became the 1,000th person working for the English NHS to have achieved a qualification within the Trainer Assessment Programme TAP since its launch in...
- Tags: Training, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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- U.K. NHS Trust Saves £46,000 in One Year With Timely Software Updates
- To improve efficiency and reduce costs, managers at Blackpool, Fylde, and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust needed new tools to automate software updates. The trust, which is located in north-west England, assessed Novell ZenWorks before choosing to deploy Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003. This decision was based on the familiarity, interoperability,...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust Increases Helpdesk Efficiency With Supportworks From Hornbill
- The West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute health services in West Suffolk. In 2003, the Trust selected Hornbill's Supportworks for its expanding IT helpdesk operation. The Trust's old MS Access based application was no longer suitable for the purpose. Since installing Supportworks the IT Department Support Team has expanded...
- Tags: Hospital, Supportworks, West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations
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- 500th NHS Trainer Receives TAP Certificate
- Gary Turnbull right of Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust recently completed the three-day TAP Delivery Skills Refresher DSR programme operated by The Training Foundation, thereby becoming the 500th NHS trainer to be awarded a certificate within the Trainer Assessment Programme TAP since the turn of the millennium. Speaking after...
- Tags: Training, Certificate, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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