Perot Systems bags £108m slice of NHS IT

Perot Systems has won a £108m slice of the NHS' electronic patient record system contract awarded to BT.

As part of the six-and-a-half year deal Perot Systems will work within a consortium to help deliver the local electronic patient record application and system under BT's local service provider contract for the London region.

BT was awarded the full 10-year, £996m patient record system contract last December by the Department of Health as part of the £6bn NHS National Programme for IT and is the lead local service provider is responsible for providing the infrastructure to access and use the nationally implemented care records and electronic booking services systems.

The system for the London region covers more than seven million patients, 150,000 NHS staff and 43 hospitals.

Perot Systems' work will be done through its own clinical transformation organisation, which specialises in the healthcare sector worldwide.

Suzanne Goodband, European health industry group leader for Perot Systems, said in a statement: "Perot Systems will apply its best practice capabilities to the London LSP from top to bottom - from strategic integration design to the local deployment and implementation of system improvements with clinicians and care providers,"

BT awarded another chunk of the London contract earlier this year to SeeBeyond, which will provide the software to integrate a number of disparate systems throughout London that currently have minimal connectivity.