North Bristol NHS Trust is upgrading their telecoms infrastructure using Alcatel-Lucent products. The move comes as part of a project to build a new £500m hospital at Southmead.

North Bristol is the 5th largest healthcare trust in England - 9,000 staff, 1,300 beds and an annual turnover of in the region of £450m.

"When I started at North Bristol NHS Trust about six years ago, there had been years of underinvestment," said Martin Bell, director of assurance, information and technology at the trust. "We now have time to make this hospital a technology-led, information-led facility," he added.