Case Study

North Bristol NHS Trust

• North Bristol NHS Trust is the biggest health trust in the south west and one of the largest in the country.
• It provides hospital-based medical and surgical services to the population of north Bristol, South Gloucestershire and north Somerset.

Challenge

• Urgent need to update outdated network to its 2 main campuses
• A new high speed network was also required to allow for implementation of vital digital systems (PACS) under the NHS's CfH
• Implementation challenges would include complex physical environments and the need to minimise disruption to staff

Solution

• Removal of legacy network
• Implementation of new core network
• High speed HP based LAN specified to join the Trust's 2 main hospital sites
• Installation of Gigabit backbone with capacity for 1Gbps to the desktop where required

Benefits

• Project phase successfully completed with minimum disruption to staff
• The new high speed network has enabled the Trust to deploy PACS providing easier collaboration between clinicians
• Over 4000 users now have access to high speed network, including 100 remote users, with capacity to add more

Partners

HP

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