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FOI Request 2120 - ICT Details |
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Written by FOI Lead
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| Case Number |
2120 |
| Request Date |
22/06/2010 |
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Details of the Request
- A copy of the ICT Strategy that covers the year 2009/10, if no such strategy exists please include a copy of your Trust's strategy.
- A copy of the Trust's corporate management structure.
- Contact details for the head of IT/ICT at your Trust.
- A copy of the organisational structure of the IT/ICT department.
- Expenditure on IT/ICT on non-staff costs by major cost centres (hardware, software) for 2009/10.
- Does the Trust have any virtualization technology provided by the local IT/ICT department?
- Was the virtualisation implemented as a planned change, if so please supply the business case, project plan, other high-level project documents and any end of project reports or evaluation?
- How many virtual servers does the IT/ICT department provide to the Trust, as of June 2010?
- How many physical servers are utilised by the Trust, excluding any hosting solely virtual servers, as of June 2010?
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| Completion Date |
14/07/2010 |
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Details of the Response
Thank you for your request to Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust regarding ICT/IT.
The Trust’s Associate Director of Health Informatics (Interim) has responded.
- A copy of the ICT Strategy that covers the year 2009/10, if no such strategy exists please include a copy of your Trust’s strategy.
This is currently under development, to be published Oct 2010, but a full range of Trust strategies, including an IM&T Strategic Review (Jan 2010), are freely available for reading through the Trust's public Internet.
- A copy of the Trust's corporate management structure
See our Organisation Chart
- Contact details for the head of IT/ICT at your Trust
Associate Director of Health Informatics
Health Informatics Department
St Peter's Hospital
- A copy of the organisational structure of the IT/ICT department.
See attached.
- Expenditure on IT/ICT on non-staff costs by major cost centres (hardware, software) for 2009/10
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2009/10 |
| Computer Hardware Purchases: |
£16k |
| Computer Software/License: |
£27k |
| Computer Maintenance: |
£25k |
| Computer Contracts: |
£443k |
| External Consultancy Fees: |
£165k |
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- Does the Trust have any virtualization technology provided by the local IT/ICT department?
Yes
- Was the virtualisation implemented as a planned change, if so please supply the business case, project plan, other high-level project documents and any end of project reports or evaluation?
This was implemented as a pilot, so no business case or project documents exist.
- How many virtual servers does the IT/ICT department provide to the Trust, as of June 2010? Please give a breakdown by technology and platform (VMWare, Hypervisor, etc)
2 VMware ESX 3.5 hosts running 19 virtual servers.
- How many physical servers are utilised by the Trust, excluding any hosting solely virtual servers, as of June 2010?
Approximately 100.
- Costs associated with the virtual environment for the year 2009/10, capital and revenue? Please provide a list of contracts and costs associated with support of the virtual platform(s) in the year 2009/10
Virtual environment support is part of a contract that covers a number of key infrastructure elements, including Microsoft AD, Exchange and Citrix. The total annual cost for this is approximately £14k. There are also costs for the licence maintenance and associated hardware maintenance. This comes to around £4K.
- What ratio of IT/ICT services are provided on the virtual platforms as of June 2010?
About 15%.
- The number of staff and their job titles who are authorised to administer the virtual platform as of June 2010?
5 members of the technical Operations team. The two site Network and Systems managers and three of the IT Analysts.
- If no virtual technologies are supplied by the IT/ICT department, what date does the Trust’s IT/ICT department expect to implement such technology, if any?
N/A
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 August 2011 10:23 )
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