BT wins £20m contract to partner Belfast Trust in healthcare transformation
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has chosen BT, one of the worldʼs leading communications and IT services companies to be the sole supplier of voice and data communications in a five‑year deal worth up to £20 million. BT will provide around 17,000 users with innovative communications technology and an infrastructure that will support the re‑ provisioning of healthcare across Northern Ireland.
The recently published Compton Review of Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland ʻTransforming Your Care,ʼ outlined the need to push care into the community, a strategy that will require the effective use of communications infrastructure to work. BTʼs ability to deliver on this vision and also drive significant cost efficiencies was key to winning the contract. Peter Russell, head of BTʼs NI Public Sector and Major Accounts said, “BT has been working with the National Health Service in the UK for many years, building a long‑term relationship based on understanding the challenges and objectives around healthcare. We are delighted to have the opportunity to work in partnership with the Belfast Trust, bringing the very latest communications technologies to bear that will over time hopefully transform the way healthcare is provided in Northern Ireland.” Paul Duffy, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust,
said, “We chose BT to develop our next generation of voice and data communications services that will greatly enhance healthcare services to our 340,000 patients and clients. We look forward to working with BT on delivering real benefits to staff and patients, and facilitating new ways of communication and teamwork.” BT won the tender with a two‑phased strategy that will deliver IP Telephony and a suite of
Peter Russell BTʼs Head of Public Sector and Major Accounts and Paul Duffy, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Unified Communication and collaboration capabilities within 18 months. As part of the plan, Microsoft Lync is being rolled out to 10,000 users, a suite of tools that will transform the way healthcare workers communicate and share information through the use of voice, video, instant messaging and presence technology. In the first phase, BT will assume its role as single supplier, consolidating voice and data services and ensuring a consistent Quality of Service across all of the Trust. Upgrading a wireless infrastructure is also a priority, bringing
radio and paging services on to an IP network. In another project, BT will upgrade the Trust network work with partner Novosco, to ensure appropriate bandwidth is available to all of the Trusts 110 sites.
In the longer‑term there are plans to extend a medical asset tracking application over the wireless network, and even the possibility of making Unified Communications available across the Health and Social Care Trust and potentially to patients in their home, connecting them to their carers more quickly and efficiently.
From analytics to innovation - students at the BT Young Scientist &
Technology Exhibition adapt to a changing Northern Ireland BT has launched the 2013 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition and is calling on students throughout Northern Ireland to enter their ideas and inventions by the 1st October 2012.
students fully understand the value of creating and owning entrepreneurial ideas. In stark contrast, six years ago, only two per cent of projects could be considered commercially‑viable.
As part of the launch, BT has released research on trends in the projects entered over the past six years (2007‑2012 exhibitions) to understand patterns in studentsʼ thinking, how they make decisions and from where they draw their inspiration and subject matter. The extensive research undertaken by BT into over 3,000 qualified projects has revealed that participating students have dramatically evolved their ideas to reflect the constantly shifting economic, environmental and social landscapes across the island of Ireland over this period.
In the 2012 exhibition, 15 per cent of qualified projects (more than one in every seven entered) demonstrated entrepreneurial flair coupled with honed business acumen ‒ however, this figure rose to 30 per cent of projects from Northern Ireland. These
Colm OʼNeill, chief executive, BT Ireland,
said, “The island of Ireland has faced well‑ documented challenges in the past number of years, and it is inevitable and unfortunate that our young people will bear some of the burden as the future generation of leaders. But as evidenced by their participation in the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, we have vast numbers of bright young people whose focus is on discovering solutions to our problems, on bettering the economy and society. As we count down to the 49th exhibition, Iʼd encourage all students to send in their ideas because weʼve proven that the exhibition can lead to brilliant opportunities for those that participate.”
Technology students Paul McKeever and Bryan Murphy from Abbey Christian Brothersʼ Grammar School, Newry are encouraging all Northern Ireland students to get their thinking caps on and enter their ideas and inventions for the 2013 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. The keen scientists invented an industrial safety detection system that prevents heavy machinery such as drills and saws from working unless the operator is wearing safety glasses.
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