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10 • Visit us @ www.ChampNews.com W The Champion • Wednesday 2 October 2013
Trust says IT overhaul will bring savings
SOUTHPORT and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust has undergone
a complete IT overhaul to improve its print infrastructure.
And management believe the changes will bring significant
savings in both cost and energy.
After its previous five–year contract had come to an end, the
print infrastructure across the Trust was in need of a total
overhaul.
Staff had been left with a large number of outdated devices
and with a range of brands under different contracts, print and
toner costs were spiralling out of control.
Standardisation was also important so that staff were able to
use the devices quickly and confidently across all locations
within the Trust.
Major changes were required but with the least amount of
disruption possible as departments in the Trust, such as A&E,
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were unable to go without access to printing and copying for
any period of time.
Over time the Trust had accumulated numerous devices, some
of which were relatively new and had significant lifespan
remaining, so they required a provider that could integrate this
equipment alongside the new devices, whilst managing and
maintaining this as part of the new solution.
After a successful tendering process, a speciality IT company,
Altodigital, conducted a detailed site audit across the Trust’s 20
locations, identifying which devices were unnecessary and
inefficient and highlighting the opportunities to save costs.
The audit identified that the number of printing and copying
devices could be reduced by 35% replacing all desktop printers
with shared workgroup Multi–Functional–Devices (MFD) and
reducing power consumption by almost half.
Liz Fleetwood, Senior Procurement Officer at Southport and
Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, said: “We needed to totally
revive our printing systems and our main objective was to
achieve a cost saving – which we have already achieved in the
short time we have been using the new devices.
“The Optimise software has been a huge benefit to us as the
toner auto–ordering has removed a lot of pressure from staff
and the network is constantly managed, leaving our teams to
focus on their core projects.
“The portal is also incredibly useful and has had some great
internal feedback – especially from our IT team.”
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