Essentia, the non-clinical services arm of Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, appointed ANS Group for its datacentre transformation programme, part of a £10million investment that will see the trust realise its ambitions to deliver a reliable, highly available paperless environment.
The technology behind the transformation is Flexpod, the integrated infrastructure collaboration between Cisco, NetApp and VMware. This Flexpod is reported to be the vendors’ largest UK deployment of the latest technologies within the public sector.
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation trust is one of the largest employers in Lambeth & Southwark with over 12,500 employees and 1.6 million patients. It is part of King’s Health Partners and is one of only five accredited academic health science centres in the UK.
This transformation will allow us to deliver a completely new model for Essentia’s infrastructure services. This will further underpin our innovative approach and ability to deliver against the demanding uptime requirements for healthcare IT services. Gary McAllister, CTO at Guy’s & St Thomas’
We are hugely excited to be delivering and managing what will be our largest Flexpod to date. It will allow Essentia to deliver rapid and agile IT for its customers.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ has an esteemed history spanning almost 900 years, achieving frequent firsts in the medical field. The Trust has reinforced its reputation as a spearhead institution for health services and clinical research and this investment provides it with the technology that it needs to continue this legacy.
