1. Technical Services Manager
Ian Stevens
Technical Services Manager

2. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Primarily Mental Health Trust for the County
Includes Rampton High Secure Hospital
Also two Medium Secure Units
Recently taken over Community Teams – Integrated Healthcare

3. Approximately 10,000 staff
Currently 7,700 System Users
Around 5500 PC’s/Laptops
Approximately 1000 of these within secure areas
Single Point of Contact – IT Service Desk of 4 staff
Health Informatics Service which is responsible for providing access to and presenting data as well as IT Services

4. Health Informatics Service and IT

6. Systems and Services Desktop PC’s – Normally Dell
Laptops – Standard is Dell Latitude E Series
Blackberry and PDA’s
Printers – Standardised as HP for most printers and on Konica Minolta for Multi Function Devices
Software – Trust standard is Windows XP for desktop Operating System and Microsoft Office 2003

7. Policies and Procedures
Split into 19 Sections
Available on the Trust Website
Affect ALL staff of the Trust
Range from Patient Care to Health and Safety

8. Some are particularly related to IT, some are particular to IT Staff.
9.01 GG/IC/02 3 Health Informatics Service (HIS) Technical Portfolio Policy
9.02 GG/IC/03 3 Health Informatics Service (HIS) IT Equipment Procurement Procedure
9.03 GG/IC/04 3 Health Informatics Service (HIS) Procurement Exemption Procedure

9. Information Governance is especially important in our Trust; the nature of our patients means that there may be significant media interest in some.
We currently have 14 separate Policies in this area.

10. All organisations, of whatever size, tend to have an Acceptable Use Policy that centres around the use of ICT.
This Policy will tend to be based on several pieces of legislation.
After a short break we will discuss the Trust Policy in detail and see if we can identify why it exists and what constraints it puts on the way that we work.

11. Break