Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
Problem Solved
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (RFT) faced mounting data protection challenges largely as a result of its ageing IT infrastructure. Backup jobs were increasingly unreliable, storage devices were running at maximum capacity, and manual tape-based processes were inefficient and time-consuming. These issues not only created operational bottlenecks, but also posed risks to data resilience and cybersecurity.
With backup failures affecting reliability and restoration times stretching from weeks to months, the Trust worked with long-standing partner, BridgeHead, to develop and implement new strategies, leveraging modern best practices, to create a scalable data protection environment that:
- Improved backup reliability and performance
- Reduced recovery time from months to minutes
- Optimised storage capacity through de-duplication
- Strengthened protection of its sensitive healthcare data.
As a result, RFT now benefits from a modernised data protection strategy – delivering peace of mind that critical patient data is fully safeguarded and quickly recoverable.
Why BridgeHead?
- Proven track record in healthcare data protection, comprising archiving, backup, and recovery
- Trusted, longstanding relationship with BridgeHead spanning almost 15 years characterised by responsiveness, collaboration, and an understanding of the Trust’s evolving needs
- Expertise and experience offering best practice strategies and environment modernisation to ensure optimal data protection
- Reputation for delivering demonstrable operational improvements and benefits for the Trust
Organization Profile
- Combined Acute and Community NHS Trust
- Part of the NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (SYICB) and the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Acute Federation
- Sites include: Rotherham Hospital, Rotherham Community Health Centre, BreathingSpace, Park Rehabilitation Centre and Kimberworth Place
- Employs approximately 5,000 staff
- Serves a 270,000 population across the borough of Rotherham
“Clearly for us and other trusts, data protection, security, management and storage are absolutely critical to underpin our wider IT initiatives. This is why our relationship with BridgeHead Software has become so important. BridgeHead specialises only in the healthcare market, so they are well placed to understand our data, our hospital environment and our industry; and we’re delighted with their progress to date. Over the course of this project, we have been really impressed by the wide range of solutions they offer in backup, disaster recovery and archiving, for both clinical and administrative data. Their knowledge of healthcare and the fact that we have easy access to their key personnel, from senior management through to product support, makes them a hugely valuable partner – plus, as their products are vendor agnostic, integration with existing systems is not an issue.”
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