Mersey Care NHS Trust has signed a five-year contract with SCC to provide cloud hosting infrastructure in a deal worth £3 million.

The Mersey NHS will transfer ICT infrastructure and data to SCC’s OptimiseCloud platform. The deal is expected to reduce the work hours needed to run the service and generate £1.5 million in savings.

Neil Smith, director of finance at Mersey Care Trust, said: “The move will provide a more flexible infrastructure capable of responding to the organisation’s changing IT needs, freeing up the technical services IT resource to work on application developments and other service delivery projects,"