Real stories

We’ve written about all the ways you can deploy smart technology in your hospital in full for our smart hospital whitepaper. Read about the full 10 use cases here.

Jamie Clegg from Milton Keynes University Hospital shares what it really takes to build a smart, sustainable and people-first hospital.

Discover how Barts Health NHS Trust unified comms across 5 hospitals, saving £300k a year and handling 33.6M calls with zero downtime.

Hear how we worked with the Trust to upgrade their network and telephony services, creating a robust, stable infrastructure that keeps people and devices reliably connected.

North Bristol NHS Trust faced a challenge familiar to many healthcare providers: ageing infrastructure, growing cyber risks, and digital disruptions that impacted care. In partnership with Block, the Trust delivered a multi-year transformation — replacing fragmented systems with a secure, scalable enterprise network that now supports over 24,000 endpoints across multiple sites.

Discover how North Bristol NHS Trust achieved sustainable digital transformation through cultural change, strong leadership, and strategic investment, with insights from CDIO Neil Darvill.

Queen Mary University of London partnered with Block to deliver a cutting-edge wireless network upgrade across six campuses and residences, ensuring seamless connectivity for 31,000+ students and staff.

Staff at Linden Lodge have been heavily involved in shaping digital trials to ensure smart technologies meet the needs of the new National Rehabilitation Centre, a purpose-built 70-bed facility being built near Loughborough and set to open in Summer 2025.

As part of our ongoing partnership with the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Broomfield Hospital has recently completed a major wireless network upgrade, installing approximately 1,200 new wireless access points. This upgrade ensures staff, patients, and visitors now have access to a reliable, secure, stable, and faster Wi-Fi connection.

This Trust decided it was time to change, replacing its incumbent cyber partner with an in-house team, supplemented by an outsourced Security Operations Centre (SOC). The SOC would deal with high and critical severity security incidents, allowing the in-house team to focus on the strategic work to mature its cyber security posture.

Hear Fay Stevenson, Marc Chang and Frances Cousins discuss how Barts Health NHS Trust has been awarded the INFRAM Level 6 rating from the HIMSS.

Barts is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, running five different hospitals across the City and East London. The group delivers world-class acute and specialist care, as well as community services, to the local area. The five hospitals, united under the newly created Barts Health umbrella in 2012, include Britain’s oldest, St Bartholomew’s.

The hospital, owned and operated by private health and care specialist, offers a range of world class healthcare services, including fundamental out-patient services, complex multi-disciplinary care, and intensive care.

NHS Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is the largest clinically-led commissioning organisation in England, responsible for buying health services for over 1.3 million people. The CCG supports around 5,000 users, from GPs through to operational staff, who access IT services from 200+ locations across the region.