London sees big new NHS shared services cluster

Two more London-based NHS organisations have signed up to a managed ICT services platform from 2e2 in a series of contracts worth £4m to the supplier.

 

Haringey Community Services (now part of Whittington Health NHS Trust) and NHS North Central London Cluster (NCL, the commissioning arms of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington PCT’s) will join Camden PCT, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust and Islington PCT to create one of the largest managed shared services offerings in the UK.

 

As part of the deal, 2e2 has relocated 240 servers to a new data centre which it helped to design and commission. In addition, 2e2 will provide an interim managed service and Programme Management Office for continuity of service during this change and it will deliver desktop management, server management and some network management services.

 

David Thomas, Deputy Director of IT for the NHS NCL Cluster said, “We selected 2e2 for a number of reasons; they were a proven, established, supplier with an existing service and they demonstrated that they had the flexibility to accommodate a broad range of requirements. We were also impressed by their in-house capability across all technology work streams as well as well as the skills of their existing NHS team.”