BT wins £20m contract to partner Belfast Trust in healthcare transformation

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust have chosen BT, one of the world’s leading communications and IT services companies to be the single supplier of voice and data communications in a five-year deal worth up to £20 million. BT will provide 17,000 users with innovative communications technology and an infrastructure that will support the re-provisioning of healthcare across Northern Ireland.

The recently published Compton Review of Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland ‘Transforming Your Care’ outlined the need to push care into the community, a strategy that will require the effective use of communications infrastructure to work. BT’s ability to deliver on this vision and also drive significant cost efficiencies was key to winning the contract.

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