Fujitsu Services

Fujitsu awarded £26 million contract from NHS Connecting for Health

24th June 2006 — Fujitsu Services, NHS Account has been awarded a contract by NHS Connecting for Health to provide NHS Care Record Services as part of the National Programme for IT to the Wirral Hospital NHS Trust. The contract, worth £26.2 million, is an extension to Fujitsu’s contract as the Local Service Provider for the Southern Cluster.

The Wirral Hospital NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to approximately 400,000 people in the North West of England across the Wirral Peninsula, Ellesmere Port and Neston. With a workforce of almost 6,000 staff, Wirral Hospital is one of the largest acute NHS Trusts in the country and operates from four separate sites:

• Arrowe Park Hospital, Upton
• Clatterbridge General Hospital, Bebington
• St Catherine’s Hospital, Birkenhead
• Victoria Central Community Hospital, Wallasey

Fujitsu Services, NHS Account will introduce electronic patient records throughout the trust, integrating with existing systems where possible, and implementing new systems when appropriate. Training will be provided to ensure the full benefits of the system are realised.

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Fujitsu Services

Fujitsu Services is one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa. It has an annual turnover of £2.29 billion; (€3.33 billion) employs almost 18,000 people and operates in over 20 countries. It designs, builds and operates IT systems and services for customers in the financial services, telecom, retail, utilities and government markets. Its core strength is the delivery of IT infrastructure management and outsourcing across desktop, networking and data centre environments, together with a full range of related services, from infrastructure consulting through integration and deployment.

Headquartered in London, Fujitsu Services is the European-centred IT services arm of the Fujitsu Group. The Fujitsu Group is a US$40.6 billion (€33.4 billion) leader in the provision of IT systems and services for the global marketplace.
For more information, please see: uk.fujitsu.com

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