BT is committed to delivering the Spine on time and to contract. For more than three years, BT has worked with the NHS to deliver a series of improvements to the Spine to deliver new and important functionality.
In 2007 BT completed one of its most complex and challenging software upgrade so far on the Spine. This release provided the backbone for the introduction of the NHS Care Records Service, for more than 50 million patients in England.
Working alongside BT on the release were 18 different suppliers
It took approximately 37,000 working days to produce
15,000 tests were carried out the equivalent of 8,000 days on more than 3 million lines of code
"Although some products have only been deployed recently, the simple fact is, we now have better NHS IT systems in our city than we've ever had before and we have an opportunity, over time, to exploit the technology to deliver real patient care benefits something that without these products we wouldn't even have been able to have considered."
Andrew Fearn
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust