NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), with over 6,500 employees across the UK, manages blood, plasma, and platelet donation, as well as organ, stem cell, and tissue donation and transplantation. It's aging technology estate, with 40 business-critical applications, 5 of which are CNI (critical national infrastructure), is largely bespoke and siloed, leading to overlapping functionality and high TCO. Additionally, 40% of it's infrastructure is legacy, with less than half residing in the cloud. This hampers NHSBT's business resilience and agility.
In response to this NHSBT have developed a platform strategy that aims to:
- Digitise our business: Leverage technology to enhance the donor journey and patient outcomes, and deliver a touchless supply chain.
- Simplify our estate: Implement common, reusable technology platforms (CRM, ERP, etc.) for similar business problems.
- Deliver technology platforms: for cloud, networking, security and collaboration to increase agility, pace of change, business resilience and security.
The Health and Social Care programme are hosting a Roundtable with the NHS England Blood and Transplant team, to discuss this strategy with techUK members to gain feedback, understand risks and discuss how to deliver it.
This will be an in-person only event, as such attendees will be limited to two representatives per organisation.
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