Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE)

The Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) promotes a best practice approach to drive the adoption of Cloud services. It provides a centralised enablement function and supports Cloud service consumers across NHS England and the wider NHS.

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Overview

A centre of excellence develops common solutions, promotes best practice and acquires new skills that are then spread throughout the enterprise to increase the likelihood of adopting new ways of working to realise value and allow teams to become self-sufficient.

We provide support and services to help NHS organisations adopt and optimise Cloud hosting arrangements to drive consistency and efficiency for the wider NHS through a series of guilds and standards.

The NHS Cloud strategy has been shaped by a requirement for government organisations to evaluate public Cloud solutions before other hosting options, as highlighted in the government's Cloud First policy, Technology Code of Practice, Cloud guide for the public sector and the NHS Cloud strategy. Where you have no choice but to host on-premises, use Crown Hosting, which represents the best option for government, allowing rapid contracting, reducing risk and effort.

Government Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) Cloud Collection provides a Cloud Resources Hub which is a comprehensive platform designed to support public sector organisations in their cloud technology journey, and offers an extensive range of resources, including policies, guidance, case studies, community engagement opportunities, and learning materials through a knowledge hub and community for collaboration.

NHS Cloud community

Join the NHS Cloud community of practice which has been created as a space to share experiences and learn amongst peers or you can contact us for more information.

Not sure where to start?

Explore the Cloud Centre of Excellence using our Cloud journey guide.

Cloud journey guide

To help you define your next steps towards cloud adoption, we have defined a set of recommendations for services and reading topics, available through this portal on a self service basis.

Explore our cloud journey guide

CcoE services

The CCOE delivers services to NHS England directorates and external organisations to support cloud adoption.

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Cloud topic areas

Cloud adoption touches many aspects of how we use IT to run our health service. This section provides access to resources, tools and communities of practice.

Resources tools and communities of practice

Cloud foundations

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Cloud Centre of Excellence Foundations

The NHS England Cloud Centre of Excellence provides centralised, enabling services to support the NHS England directorates to operate effectively on cloud platforms.

Value delivered

function as the coach and guide on your cloud adoption journey, helping support you in the right way
provide best practice processes, intellectual property, templates, reference architectures, automated scripts and policies as code for re-use, helping NHS organisations adopt and optimise Cloud services
improve the quality of Cloud services by reducing high severity service incidents
simplify service deployment, increase agility, and improve responsiveness
improve security and resilience by helping to reduce the number of legacy systems more vulnerable to cyber attack
improve value for money and reduce costs
provide a positive sustainability impact by reducing the carbon footprint from infrastructure operation

Additional resources

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NHS England Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) Responsibility Model

The Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) has been set up to promote a best practice approach to drive the adoption of Cloud services across the NHS. It provides a centralised enablement function and supports Cloud service consumers across NHS England and the wider NHS.

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Cloud Centre of Excellence recommended training and resources

Find cloud training and certification resources from our partner organisations.

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Health care case studies

The Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) promotes a best practice approach to drive the adoption of Cloud services. Read some of the latest case studies.

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Networks and connectivity transformation - Frontline capabilities

Ensuring health and care organisations have the right underlying network infrastructure, broadband connectivity and wireless technology in place to support the growing demand for bandwidth and reliable connectivity.

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Cloud Centre of Excellence cloud plan components

Contact details

If you need further support as an NHS organisations planning or migrating to use Cloud Services contact us using our feedback form for an introductory 30 minute conversation with a member of the team.

Or find our more about our new community of practice (you will need a FutureNHS account to login).

Last edited: 27 May 2025 10:44 am