Laurie Wrench
Our Ref : LW/jls/mp/FOI.29.17
Associate Director of Governance
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Lawton House
3 April 2017
Bellringer Road
Trentham
ST4 8HH
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Tel 01782 275122
Dear Adrian Hanna
Freedom of Information Act Request
I am writing in response to your request of 22 February 2017 for information as below. Your
request has been processed using the Trust’s procedures for the disclosure of information
under the Freedom of Information Act (2000).
Requested Information
1.
Are you currently using any cloud services from a public cloud vendor such as
Amazon, Microsoft etc?:
Yes
2. What services are you using?
Office 365 (pilot) 3. Who is responsible for maintaining these relationships?
Dave Hewitt, Chief
Information Officer (contact above)
4. If not, have you plans to begin using any such services in the next 3 years?
N/A
5. Would you consider utilising Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) in the future as a
means to reduce costs and simplify IT?
Yes
6. If not, why not?
N/A
7. Who is responsible for setting your annual ICT/Informatics budget/s?
Director of
Strategy and Development
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an
internal review of the management of your request. Internal review requests should be
submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your original letter and
should be addressed to: Mrs Caroline Donovan, Chief Executive, North Staffordshire
Combined Healthcare Trust, Trust Headquarters, Lawton House, Bellringer Road, Trentham,
ST4 8HH.
Chairman: Mr David Rogers
Chief Executive: Mrs Caroline Donovan
Working to improve the mental health and wellbeing of local communities
@nscht1
www.combined.nhs.uk
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can
be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely
Laurie Wrench
Associate Director of Governance
Chairman: Mr David Rogers
Chief Executive: Mrs Caroline Donovan
Working to improve the mental health and wellbeing of local communities
@nscht1
www.combined.nhs.uk