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Primary and secondary care services are supported including mental health and community services.

163 sites in total receive improved connectivity including 47 GP sites. Improved connectivity also supports a new community diagnostic centres at Skegness Hospital and Boole Technology Centre with improvements to remote staff access and remote services.

NHS Lincolnshire

Challenge

The area is rural and sparsely populated, full fibre connectivity is very limited.

The regional population can swell by more than 100,000 people during peak holiday season introducing variability in NHS demand.

There are a large level of elderly residents with long term conditions which puts added pressure on services.

A number of sites are hitting full HSCN network capacity.

Solution

Improved connectivity, particularly to critical sites where sites are hitting full capacity.

Circuit upgrades to mitigate the risk of PSTN switch off and loss of telephony services.

Re-routing of internet traffic off HSCN connections to increase capacity to HSCN.

Tactical solutions where gigabit is not available including bridging solutions where fixed fibre to premises (FFTP) is not available.

Benefits

Ability for users to connect to the ICS wide ShCR service which includes mental health and community services is improved, enabling sharing of real time access.

Diagnostics (PACS images) are available in real-time through the community diagnostic centres reducing time to diagnosis.

Improved connectivity enables the increased use of video conferencing between staff, service users and patients.

Last edited: 9 July 2024 1:26 pm