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1. BT
2010-11 CfH spending £331.5m (2009-10 spending £469.9m, -29% change year on year)
BT Global Services now dominates what remains of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). It holds both national contracts (such as the N3 network, operational in both England and Scotland), the local service provider contract in London and work transferred from Fujitsu in the south of England with NHS Connecting for Health (CfH). With the decline of CSC's work, it was in 2010-11 by far CfH's biggest supplier.
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2. Bytes Technology
Spending £67m (£57.9m, +15%)
Now in its third decade of operations, Bytes has its UK headquarters in Surrey, and parent operations in South Africa. The firm – which focuses on trusts in London and the south, the north west and West Midlands – suppliers online/virtual IT products and services, including Microsoft and VMWare offerings. With major links to Oracle and Symantec, the firm has an NHS-specific division offering single and half-day courses on software, VMWare and other types of IT training. Bytes also offers the Centennial discovery tool as a hosted service and a licensing academy for NHS bodies and staff.
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3. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Spending £37.7m (£213.2m, -82%)
The US-headquartered IT and business services firm was in 2009-10 the second largest supplier to CfH. It still officially holds its local service provider contract for the North, Midlands and East of England, but the dearth of installations of Lorenzo patient record systems in these regions has produced a steep decline in its income. In July 2011 (after the end of the financial year covered by these figures) CSC acquired UK software firm iSoft – which provides the Lorenzo system – in an effort to adapt to changing NHS contracts business.
Guardian Healthcare Network coverage of CSC
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4. Atos
Spending £33.7m (£36.6m, -8%)
Atos, an international IT services company with more than 78,000 staff in 42 countries, holds the contract with NPfIT for the Choose and Book appointment booking system. It also claims to be largest provider of medical services in the UK after the NHS, including its work assessing claimants for disability benefits including the employment support allowance for the Department for Work and Pensions. It also works with several individual trusts.
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5. Computacenter
Spending £31.4m (£18.1m, +3%)
This pan-European reseller has a long history of supplying to the NHS dating back to the 1980s, and has major contracts with a number of trusts as well as with NHS Wales. A Microsoft Enterprise NHS partner, the firm has supplied Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn, Hinchingbrooke Health Care, NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney, and the East Kent Hospitals university foundation trust. It also had a major contract with NHS Blood and Transplant awarded in 2011.
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6. Emis
Spending £26m (£27.5m, -5%)
Egton Medical Information Systems develops and supplies computer systems used by 53% of all GP practices in the UK, and is a UK-based firm employing 800 people. Emis initially chose not to be one of the major GP computer providers included in NPfIT due to issues surrounding the lack of system choice for GPs.
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7. Trustmarque Solutions
Spending £19.5m (£25.1m, -23%)
IT services reseller originally focusing on the north east and Yorkshire, now servicing trusts nationally. The firm, which has offices in London, York and Edinburgh, uses a consultancy, SAMpartners, to assist in trust deployments, notably of Centennial. The firm is a Microsoft enterprise agreement partner with the north east and Yorkshire and the Humber, as well as for the NHS in Scotland and Wales. With links to other vendors including McAfee and Novell, the company claims its systems are used by 90% of NHS bodies.
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8. Cable & Wireless
Spending £19.1m (£23.5m, -19%)
With its origins in telecommunications, C&W now supplies internet and email, as well as phone, systems to the NHS. The company is central to the long-term national plan to move wholly to NHSmail by the middle of the decade. Along with BT, it was also one of the major suppliers of NHSnet, the forerunner of N3, providing a national internet service for health service organisations.
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9. Qui Imus (Qi Consulting)
Spending £11.1m (£12.6m, -12%)
A specialist provider of public sector IT consultants, covering the MoD, local authorities and criminal justice as well as NHS, this firm has more than 450 consultancy staff. It has supplied trusts and NHS bodies including Barts and the London, Basildon and Thurrock university hospitals, Lincolnshire NHS Shared Service, the East Midlands, North West and South Central strategic health authorities as well as NHS Wales.
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10. In Practice Systems (INPS)
Spending £11.1m (£12m, -8%)
Now part of the CEGEDIM global group, INPS develops, deploys and supports the Vision clinical system, which is in use by 95% of trusts and health boards. With offices in Coventry, Dundee and London, the firm majors on training for NHS staff using the Vision clinical IT system. Recently launched Vision 360 platform to expand services.
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