VoIP for Suffolk

NHS services in Suffolk have announced their setting up of a new VoIP system to “improve communications between more than 200 hospitals, clinics and general practices.”

Using a unified communications system provided by Cisilion and traveling over the health service's N3 national broadband network, the scheme was deployed jointly by Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Suffolk Primary Care Trust.

The system had been in development since late 2005, and allows doctors, nurses and child health visitors to access each other via a direct dial number.