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Freedom of Information request 289-2022

Response published: 11 October 2022
Commercial

FOI Request

Dear Sir / Madam, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is a global networking and communications technology vendor with a European heritage and with a major European and UK presence. As an established supplier of technology equipment and services to the public sector, we are keen to understand the digital transformation needs of UK public sector organisations. Please do provide all relevant information to the following questions, with both text and relevant links to documents. Question Response – text and/or links When was your last networking LAN, Core, edge. refresh, and when is the next refresh planned? When was your last Wi-Fi refresh, and when is the next refresh planned? When was your last telephony or Unified Communications refresh, and when is the next refresh planned? When was your last mobile devices/pagers refresh, and when is the next refresh planned? Can you confirm contract end dates and vendors for the above? Do you have an integration or workflow solution across the multiple technology systems in the trust? What are the key parts of your Digital Transformation and/or Hospital of the Future strategy going forward? What adoption of Internet of Things has been implemented? Do you have an IOT containment policy? What adoption of asset tracking/real-time asset monitoring or RFID has been implemented or is being considered or planned? Does this include patient flow? Can you confirm contract dates and vendors?

FOI Response

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 289

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.

When was your last networking LAN, Core, edge. refresh, and when is the next refresh planned?
Last 2021/22, Next 2028/29

When was your last Wi-Fi refresh, and when is the next refresh planned?
Last 2017/18, Next 2023/24

When was your last telephony or Unified Communications refresh, and when is the next refresh planned?
Last 2019/20, Next 2026/27

When was your last mobile devices/pagers refresh, and when is the next refresh planned?
Last 2021/22, next TBC due to potential ICS project

Can you confirm contract end dates and vendors for the above?
Vendors, Cisco, Aruba, Mitel, PageOne

Do you have an integration or workflow solution across the multiple technology systems in the trust?
Please provide a more focused question

What are the key parts of your Digital Transformation and/or Hospital of the Future strategy going forward?
Key parts of the Digital strategy are as follows:
Empower people: Provide convenient access to services and health information for people to self-manage and support personalised care.
Enable clinicians: Build a digitally skilled workforce with the right technology training and infrastructure in place to deliver efficient, high quality, responsive and innovative services.
Integrate systems: Work in collaboration with partners to improve system wide health and care transformation to improve planning and delivery of services through the greater use of shared data.
Revolutionise information: Delivering secure, robust and reliable data analytics that can be easily and rapidly accessed across the organisation and health care system.

What adoption of Internet of Things has been implemented? Do you have an IOT containment policy?
Supported under ICS

What adoption of asset tracking/real-time asset monitoring or RFID has been implemented or is being considered or planned? Does this include patient flow? Can you confirm contract dates and vendors?
No real time asset tracking is currently in place, however further information is being gathered around this area.