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Block FutureNow podcast with Amy Freeman, CDIO at UHNM

In this episode, we sit down with Amy Freeman, Chief Digital Information Officer at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust and winner of Digital Health CIO of the Year. Amy shares her story of leading one of the UK’s largest hospital trusts through a period of bold digital transformation.

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FutureNow podcast with Jamie Clegg

In this episode of FutureNow, Stefan Phillips chats with Jamie Clegg, Head of Digital Innovation at Milton Keynes University Hospital Foundation NHS Trust, about what it really takes to build a smart, sustainable and people-first hospital.

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Collaboration

Barts Health NHS Trust collaboration client story

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

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Giving back control to University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

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.

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Overhauling Legacy Infrastructure at North Bristol NHS Trust

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.

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Transforming Connectivity at Queen Mary University of London

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.

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Smart Buildings

Update – Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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.

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Update – Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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.

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Other

Client story – A managed SOC service for the NHS

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.

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Empowering digital progress at Barts Health​ webinar

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.

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Client story – Barts Health NHS Trust

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.

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Client story – A Leading Private Health Hospital

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.

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Client story – Birmingham and Solihull CCG

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.

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