Oxford NHS Trust has revealed that it expects to save more than £1 million over five years from a communications upgrade.

The deal will see the trusts existing phone systems replaced by a cloud-based communications services provided by Vodafone.

The new communications system which will simplify, increase flexibility and standardise services, will be rolled out to 140 sites, throughout Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset and Wiltshire.

Dominic McKenny, director of informatics at Oxford Health, described how the new communications system would: “reduce our telecommunications spend, redirect these resources to more productive activities and simplify the service for our users and those supporting our telephones”.

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