FOI4961
28thSeptember, 2016
Rob Calvett
DearRob
Please find belowthe response to your Freedom of Information request to Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Trust response
Please could you provide the following information:
1.General
a)How many sites are there at the Trust? 2
b)What is the total number of employees across those sites? 3750
c)How many IT staff do you employ?
Pure IT only staff = 11. We do have MI staff and Project Management staff
d)What is your annual IT budget?
Pure IT only excluding the other staff mentioned previously - £1,476,589 inclusive of Pay and non-pay costs
e)Is it likely that your organisation will merge with another organisation? No
2.Contacts
a)Please provide contacts details for your current CCIO? Mr Abdullah Jibawi – Consultant Vascular Surgeon; Length in post: 1 year
b)Please provide contacts details for your current Clinical Directors?
Mr John Hadley: Trauma & Orthopaedic, Theatres/Anaesthetics/Surgery/Critical Care; length in post: 2 years
Dr Peter Wilkinson: Acute Medicine & Emergency Services; length in post: 2 years
Dr Paul Crawshaw: Women’s Health & Paediatrics; length in post:5 years
Dr Andrew Laurie: Diagnostics & Therapies; length in post:6 years
c)Please provide contacts details for your current Medical Directors? Dr David Fluck; length in post: 5 years
d)How long have the listed individuals been in post?See above
3.Infrastructure Contracts
a)Is there an existing IT outsource contract in place? If yes: YES
o Who is the contract with? Hardware break/fix on servers only with Prestige Systems
o When is the contract up for renewal? September 17
o What is the annual value of that contract?£3400 per annum
b)Do you partner with any other trusts to procure any IT services? If yes: YES
o Please name the trusts.Royal Surrey County Hospital(RSCH)
o Please list the services that you share.We share an Airwatch service hosted at RSCH
c) Across your IT contracts do you have any Netapp Technology in use? If yes: NO
o When is the contract up for renewal?
o What was the value of the initial three-year contract?
d) Across your IT contracts do you have any Commvault Technology in use? If yes: YES
o When is the contract up for renewal? June 2017
o What was the value of the initial three-year contract? £35k however this included the installation, configuration and set up costs when we installed the system
4. Applications
a) Are you actively procuring a VNA? NO
o If yes, which technologies are you considering/have you chosen? N/A
o If no (and you have a VNA in place)
b)Which technology did you choose? Lexmark (ACUO)
c) When did the contract commence? June 2013
o If no (and you do not have a VNA in place), do you expect to go to market in the next 12- 18 months for one? N/A
d)How many applications does your organisation use? (Please select from the following) o 0-100 o 100-250 o 250-400 o 400-600 o 600+ 100 - 250
e) How many of these departmental applications are unsupported? (Please select from the following) o <10% o 11 - 30% o 31% - 50% o 51% - 75% o >75% <10%
f)What’s percentage of these applications are cloud native and therefore do not rely in on premise IT infrastructure?
o <10%o 11 - 30% o 31% - 50% 51% - 75% o >75% <10%
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Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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