Question
1. For each of the elements below, please provide details about your cloud provider: Main provider Total annual spend 2025/2026 (£) Contract end date Additional notes
Data storage
Networking
Back-up and archive
Application databases
Big Data analytics databases
Email
2. For each of the network supply systems listed below, please provide the requested details: Main supplier Total annual spend 2025/2026 (£) Contract end date Additional notes
Mobile telecoms
Data network (broadband)
DEFINITION: Broadband is the actual internet connection afforded by your internet service provider (ISP), which you can access directly via a LAN or ethernet connection between your modem and device
WiFi (hardware)
DEFINITION: Wifi is a wireless connection between multiple devices and your router, and just one of the ways you can access the internet
CoIN (if applicable) - Community of Interest Network
WAN (Wide Area Network)
DEFINITION: WANs connect users and applications in geographically dispersed locations
LAN (Local Area Network)
DEFINITION: LANs connect users and applications in close geographical proximity (same building)
VPN provider
Other (please specify)
3. Please supply the following details regarding your servers: Main supplier Total annual spend 2025/2026 (£) Contract end date Additional notes
4. For each element of IT infrastructure below, please provide the requested details: Main provider Total annual spend 2025/2026 (£) Contract end date Additional notes
Desktop management
Networking
Data Centre: hardware
Server management
IT/cyber security support supplier?
5a: What percentage of your servers are virtualised? % Virtualised Main supplier Additional notes
DEFINITION: A virtual server re-creates the functionality of a dedicated physical server. It exists transparently to users as a partitioned space inside a physical server.
5b: In relation to your trust's virtual servers please provide the requested information: Number of servers Owned or Leased Average age of servers Main supplier Annual spend 2025/2026 (£) Additional notes
6a: Does your trust have any virtualised desktops? Main product Main Supplier Total annual spend 2025/2026 (£) Number of virtual desktops Contract end date Additional notes
DEFINITION: A virtual desktop is a preconfigured image of operating systems and applications in which the desktop environment is separated from the physical device used to access it. Users can access their virtual desktops remotely over a network.
6b: If your organisation does not have virtualised desktops, are you planning to implement any within the next two years? Yes/No Preferred supplier Expected number Additional notes
Where you plan to implement new virtualised desktops, please provide details as requested
7: Please outline your trust's WiFi coverage for each element listed below Patient WiFi coverage Staff WiFi coverage Additional notes
Community wide (e.g. CoIN - Community of Interest Network)
Enterprise wide (whole campus)
Main building only
Sections of building(s) only
Mobile phone signal enabled through WiFi
No wireless networks are used in the trust
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 318-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
To provide an update on your Trust’s Infrastructure, including aspects of Networking, Virtualisation, and Cloud?
Our response:
Please clink on link below to access information collated as at 29 December 2025.
Networking Virtualisation and Cloud Spreadsheet – 10 – Networking Virtualisation and Cloud – Spreadsheet
Note: Some of the information is commercially sensitive as some contracts are due for renewal in the New Year, therefore we are applying FOI exemption Section 43 – Prejudice to commercial interests.
Next steps:
Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:
Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk
If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
