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AdEPT Technology Group PLC
08 January 2020
AdEPT Technology Group PLC
("AdEPT" or the "Company")
AdEPT helps Kent NHS achieve its Digital Transformation
8(th) January 2020: for immediate release
AdEPT Press Release
AdEPT helps deliver high speed connectivity to accelerate ICT
for the NHS in Kent, positively impacting 1.6million people
AdEPT delivers on a promise
In 2018 AdEPT announced a significant government contract win
with the NHS. However, winning a contract is only half the battle -
it is crucial to deliver on the promise made in this substantial
contract process.
AdEPT is therefore delighted to announce that, under the
guidance of the NHS Trusts in Kent, AdEPT has delivered improved
network and bandwidth capacity to more than 100 hospital and
specialist care sites across the region.
This project facilitates greater collaboration in handling the
health and welfare needs of Kent residents.
Following the success of this initial network programme, AdEPT
are completing the roll-out of improved bandwidth services to the
300 GP surgeries in the region. This will complete the upgrade of
the entire NHS network in Kent.
This ultimately means that 1.6 million people across Kent will
receive better care through improved network and bandwidth
capacity, financial savings and improved access to clinical
systems.
The challenge to be addressed
In 2017, the NHS decided that the 12 years old 'N3 network'
needed to be retired.
But what was the 'N3 network'? N3 was a decade old national
broadband network for the English NHS, connecting all NHS locations
and 1.3 million employees across England, a solution formerly
managed by BT.
As a single supplier service, N3 was principally designed to
provide access to national applications, such as patient records,
hospital appointments and prescription services for NHS
organisations.
However, as with all single supplier markets, the network became
outdated.
The Change
The Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) was devised as a
multi-supplier marketplace adhering to single credentials - it is
designed to provide an improved way for health and social care
organisations across the country - from both inside and outside the
NHS - to access and exchange electronic information.
This multi-supplier approach also encouraged competition for the
provision of the network, leading to a substantial cost reduction
for the NHS.
Digitising Healthcare
The digital transformation being felt in all walks of society is
being experienced in equal measure across the NHS.
Front line care is increasingly digital. A recent Healthcare
News report clearly highlighted a host of initiatives that
demonstrate how this transformation is impacting the NHS. Examples
of ICT initiatives across the NHS include;
Information security, patient analytics, digitised patient
engagement, population health, Electronic Health Records, remote
patient monitoring and revenue cycle management.
The healthcare world is clearly changing, with; virtual
surgeries, remote consultations and telehealth all improving the
way health services are delivered.
However, all these transformations depend on a high speed,
secure, cost effective network infrastructure.
Specifically Kent, and the benefit HSCN brings
The delivery of a new Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) to
NHS hospitals and specialist trusts in Kent replaces an outdated N3
network, delivering improved access to information and technology
and substantial cost savings. Underpinning the transformation of
health and social care services in the region.
This improvement was made possible by the competition between
network suppliers driven by HSCN.
Kent chose AdEPT because it demonstrated that it would be a
flexible and responsive partner to the NHS in the region.
How has this substantial programme been delivered?
The change programme has required strong collaboration between a
number of critical partners;
-- the NHS Trusts in Kent,
-- NHS Digital, and
-- AdEPT Technology Group
"The N3 community of interest network (COIN) within Kent was one
of, if not, the largest and most complex in England. It's a credit
to the strong leadership and collaboration between the seven Trusts
in Kent, that not only was a successful migration of services to
HSCN completed, but we were the first to do so in the UK"
commented Tim Scott, Chief Commercial Officer and HSCN Programme
Lead at AdEPT.
"Strong programme delivery is critical to complex technology
projects. There are four key disciplines and attributes that
allowed us to deliver this programme so well: leadership,
structure, collaboration and flexibility.
In AdEPT, we found a partner - rather than a supplier - aligned
to us in each of these disciplines".
Michael Beckett, Director of IT, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
NHS Trust.
"The migration of the Kent CoIN demonstrates everything HSCN was
designed to achieve;
greater collaboration, both locally and with suppliers;
reduced costs for the NHS by virtue of the HSCN marketplace
and
using technology to provide enhanced capabilities,
that will deliver better care though health and social care
integration."
Mike Oldfield-Marsh, HSCN Migration Manager NHS Digital.
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Notes for journalists and editors-
For a full briefing please contact:
AdEPT Technology Group Plc
Phil Race, Chief Executive 07798 575 338
Ben Rogers, Head of Marketing 01689 814 700
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This announcement has been released by Ben Rogers, Head of
Marketing, on behalf of the Company.
About AdEPT Technology Group plc:
AdEPT Technology Group plc is one of the UK's leading
independent providers of managed services for IT, unified
communications, connectivity and voice solutions. AdEPT's tailored
services are used by thousands of customers across the UK and are
brought together through the strategic relationships with tier-1
suppliers such as Openreach, BT Wholesale, Virgin Media, Avaya,
Microsoft, Dell and Apple.
AdEPT is quoted on AIM, operated by the London Stock Exchange
(Ticker: ADT). For further information please visit:
www.adept.co.uk
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