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A pilot programme has underlined the transformative potential of technology following a healthcare trial that significantly reduced unnecessary GP appointments, 999 calls and specialist team visits for vulnerable patients while cutting hospital appointments by 80%. Conducted by SCC, Europe’s biggest independent IT solutions provider, and South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT), the pilot represents a...
Clinical Trial Demonstrates Power of Technology to Transform Care for Vulnerable and Elderly Patients
SCC has been named as a supplier on the prestigious Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Technology Services 3 (TS3) Framework, through which Public Sector bodies in the UK can procure a range of ICT services. This ensures SCC maintains its position on the next iteration of the successful Technology Services 2 (TS2) Framework. TS3 builds on...
SCC named as a supplier on CCS Technology Services Framework
Healthcare providers are under enormous pressure to see more and more patients every day, each one with unique, sometimes complex, circumstance that require specialist care. Clinicians bear the brunt of this expectation, as they deliver an appropriate level of care to as many patients as possible, prioritising where needed, as quickly as they can. Healthcare...
Automating healthcare for better patient outcomes
Buy bad, Buy twice: Exploring Increased Investment in Homeworking bundles As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 forcing the UK and other countries into strict lockdown measures, we all know in great detail about the impact it has had on our working lives. We’ve read about and discussed at length the requirement for organisations...
Buy bad, Buy twice
IT and Sustainability A sustainable approach makes sense both from a business and personal perspective. And who better to lead the way and set an example than the public sector, your sector? IT and sustainability is linked in a number of areas… IT uses 10% of all business electricity1, inefficient devices and data centres are major...
Join the webinar “Practical steps for IT to drive sustainability”
SCC and South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) have launched a new Digital Innovation Hub during a virtual ceremony which saw Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, formally open the facility at Stratford Hospital. SCC, Europe’s biggest independent IT solutions provider, has partnered with the Trust, the only general acute and community provider...
SCC and South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust launch new Digital Innovation Hub
SCC is ending 2020 on a high after being named NetApp Public Sector Partner of the Year at the NetApp UK&I Partner Awards. Held virtually, the annual UK&I Partner Awards recognise the outstanding contribution and support provided to NetApp and its customers throughout the year. Nominations for all the awards are provided by the UK&I...
SCC wins NetApp Public Sector Partner of the Year award
250 young people will receive individual laptops and free data to support their learning at home through an initiative between the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and SCC. The young people from 12 RSC Associate Schools in Birmingham and Warwickshire will receive individual laptops and 12 months of free data per user to support the resilience...
Young people in Birmingham and Warwickshire receive digital access to assist learning from SCC
Rapidly releasing new digital products and services to market is critical to staying competitive. DevOps is an increasingly common approach to achieving this through agile software development: bringing together developers and operations teams to build, test, deploy and monitor applications with speed, quality and control. DevOps is relevant to any kind of software project regardless...
Using DevOps to gain speed, and reduce cost and complexity
DevOps by SCC and IBM The newest approach to software agile development, DevOps brings together developers (dev) and IT operations (ops) teams to build, test, deploy and monitor applications with speed, quality and control. DevOps is relevant to any kind of software project regardless of architecture, platform or purpose. It drives cloud-native and mobile applications,...
Bringing together people, processes and technology
In today’s ‘new normal’, more and more data is created and used in uncontrolled environments – at the edge, in third-party systems, and across multiple cloud environments. To make matters worse, pandemic-driven disruptions are giving hackers the cover they need to wreak havoc. When so much in the world is uncertain, data protection, data governance...
Ensuring data privacy and security in the new normal
IT teams for UK public sector organisations are increasingly being asked to do more with less and, in particular, lower the total cost of ownership of IT operations. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for government authorities to cut costs at a time when technology has never been so important. In order to reduce...