Computing has reported that the ITO partnership between Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) and HP has been a resounding success, acknowledged by both sides of the outsourcing relationship.

HP has digitalised CUH’s services in a way that allows frontline staff to quickly and securely access data and patient records.

“All of our IT is now managed by HP – and the system is already delivering real benefits,” commented Dr Afzal Chaudhry, CUH’s chief medical information officer.

However, some of the NHS workers have struggled with the transition, particularly those that are less “tech-savvy” than their younger colleagues. Chaudhry continued: "If you take some of the senior consultants who'd never left notepad and books.

“They'd trained as a student, used them as junior doctors all the way through and some of these people, they'd been there for years. Then overnight we took everything that they knew, then threw it away.”

Nevertheless, the majority of staff have transitioned well and are working more efficiently as a result of HP’s input.

The new platform installed by HP is being widely adopted and utilised, with 3,200 people using the system onsite, and further staff using it offsite, on a daily basis. Even during its quietest periods in the early hours of the morning, CUH tends to find 300-400 individuals logged in at any given time.

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