UK Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Awards Proact UK

Proact UK won both nominated
categories at the 2011 Excellence in Supply awards at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh (WWL) NHS
Foundation Trust.

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust is an acute
trust serving the people of Wigan and Leigh. The trust is dedicated to providing the best possible healthcare for the local
population in the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. In the most
recent published Performance Ratings, the Trust achieved a positive
assessment and received ‘Good’ ratings for both Effective Use of Resources and
Quality of Services. The Trust has three hospital sites, an outpatients centre
and offices located at Bryan House and Buckingham Row in Wigan town centre

Winning both Supplier of the Year and Best Collaborative Project,
Proact UK demonstrated how a customer focused, vendor independent approach
combined with strong knowledge of the market allows for successful projects
that help drive organisational goals and add business value.

The Challenge:

After a close call WWL primary data centre, the Trust needed to safeguard
its patient data to ensure that key services remained up and a safe and
efficient service was delivered to its patients.

The Solution:

A solution based upon NetApp FlexPod architecture and heavy virtualisation,
Proact consolidated and allowed for flexibility, availability, security and
performance with improved SLAs. Risk was reduced which enabled the Trust to
offer safe patient care event in the event of a disaster.

Benefits:

• £1.86m tangible saving over 5-years
• ROI in less than 18 months
• Award winning solution
• Best Collaborative Project
• Project of the Year
• Proact named as Supplier of the Year
• Estimated 70% reduction in cost of a traditional DR service
• Improved ability to recover key services
• Solution built on proven reference FlexPod architecture
• Improvement of work/life balance for operational staff
• One million KG reduction in CO² emissions