BT Awarded Broadband Contract with National Health Service (NHS)

BT was awarded a £168M agreement with the National Health Service (NHS) Information Authority to provide upgraded broadband connections to more than 7,000 NHS sites throughout England, including hospitals, general practitioners and NHS Trusts. The broadband upgrade supports the new NHS National Strategic Plan for IT and it underpins three major projects: electronic booking systems (online appointment bookings), integrated patient care records, and electronic transfer of prescriptions. The upgrades will be provided using secure IP-VPNs. Broadband is defined as 256 kbps connections to general practitioners' offices and 2 Mbps services to hospitals and other NHS facilities.
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