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Dear London North West Healthcare NHS Trust,

New FOI:

Please could you provide the following information:

Number of Employees
Number of IT Staff
Number of sites
Annual IT Capex Budget
Annual IT Opex Budget

Key dates:

Storage Refresh date
Backup Refresh date
Network Refresh date
Server Refresh date
Virtualisation refresh date
Desktop refresh date
VDI refresh date
DR Contract renewal
IT Outsource contract renewal

Desktops:

Number of Desktops
VDI vendor

Servers:

Number of Windows Servers
Number of UNIX/Linux Servers
What operating system do you use?
Percentage Virtualised?
Server platform?
Current server supplier?
Current support expiry date?

Storage:

Volume of data:
Primary Storage Vendor:
Date of Purchase:
Backup Software:
Date of Purchase:
Storage support end date:
Backup Support end date:

Network:

Network vendor:
Network Speed:
Network Support end date:

Applications:

Which healthcare specific apps do you use?
Database vendors
Email provider
PACS Provider
VNA Provider
SSO Provider
EPR Provider

Which services do you outsource?
When does your outsource contract refresh?
Who are your providers?
Do you use any Cloud services?
If yes, which ones?

How far are you in your cloud strategy?
a) Not considering Cloud for the foreseeable future
b) Interested in Cloud, but have not started looking into it
c) Research Stage
d) Meeting with Suppliers
e) Consultancy
f) Started to integrate
g)Fully integrated

Yours faithfully,

Felicity Myres

FOI (LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

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FOI (LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

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Dear Ms Myres

 

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust is responding to your Freedom of
Information request received on 20/04/2017.

FOI Ref: 080-17

 

In response:

 

Number of Employees                                                  8572

Number of IT Staff                                              
           79

Number of sites                                                  
            39        

Annual IT Capex Budget                                               
£4,000.000.00

Annual IT Opex Budget                                                
£7,184,530.00

 

Key dates:

Storage Refresh date                                                    
Not Defined

Backup Refresh date                                                     
Not Defined     

Network Refresh date                                                   Not
Defined

Server Refresh date                                                      
Not Defined

Virtualisation refresh date                                           Not
Defined

Desktop refresh date                                                    
Not Defined

VDI refresh date                                                  
           N/A

DR Contract renewal                                                     
Not Defined

IT Outsource contract renewal                                   N/A

 

Desktops:

Number of Desktops                                                     
7467

VDI vendor                                                           
             N/A

 

Servers:

Number of Windows Servers                                     537

Number of UNIX/Linux Servers                                 41

What operating system do you use?                       Microsoft,  HP
Unix,

Percentage Virtualised?                                                87%

Server platform?                                                 
            Dell / HP

Current server supplier?                                              
Varies dependent on system requirements                

Current support expiry date?                                     There are
over 300 systems with various support terms

 

Storage:

Volume of data:                                                  
            250TB

Primary Storage Vendor:                                              N/A
Dell EMC

Date of Purchase:                                                
           2016

Backup Software:                                                
           Comvault/Veeam/Semantic

Date of Purchase:                                                
           2015

Storage support end date:                                           On
going           No planned refreshment date set

Backup Support end date:                                           On
going           No planned refreshment date set

 

Network:

Network vendor:                                                 
           Predominantly Cisco Active Equipment

Network Speed:                                                   
           On average the Lan id 10Gb with 1 Gb to the desktop

Network Support end date:                                        90% of
the network is supported in house the remainder is supported by Cisco with
a contract end date of 31^st March 2021

 

Applications:

Which healthcare specific apps do you use?

Database vendors                                                          
Oracle / Microsoft                                  

Email provider                                                    
              NHS E-mail                    

PACS Provider                                                      
            Sectra

VNA Provider                                                       
            N/A

SSO                                                                       
                N/A

EPR Provider                                                        
             N/A

 

Which services do you outsource?                           Printing

When does your outsource contract refresh?     2019

Who are your providers?                                             
Vision PLC

Do you use any Cloud services?                                 Yes

If yes, which ones?                                              
          ESR, Rostering

 

How far are you in your cloud strategy?                 Interested in
Cloud, but have not started looking into it

We trust this is now complete and thank you for your interest in London
North West Healthcare NHS Trust.

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