Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust Quickly Responds to COVID-19 with Citrix
June 16 2020 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Locked down and forced to close clinics,
hospital enabled 2,000 employees to work from home and maintain
continuity of services within 48 hours
COVID-19 hit fast and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust was
equally quick to respond. When government mandates forced the Trust
to move staff and patient clinics off the main hospital site, it
moved quickly to enable 2,000 employees to work from home and
continue providing essential services. And with the help of Citrix
Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), they were up and running in less than
two days.
“We had to move all our staff out and rapidly transition as many
services as we could to remote delivery,” said Mark Hutchinson,
Executive Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) for the Trust.
“But that’s easier said than done.”
Panic Buying
Many hospitals in the same situation rushed to buy hundreds of
laptops to support their teams. The Trust went a different route.
“We didn’t want to just buy hundreds of expensive laptops that we’d
have to set up, distribute out to staff who need them most and then
have the challenge of counting them all back in,” Hutchinson said.
“But we also knew that individual PCs in people’s homes can be
difficult to secure and manage, which is critical when we’re
working with confidential patient data.”
A Secure, Reliable Alternative
The Trust chose instead to work with Citrix Gold Solution
Advisor LIMA, to implement Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops and
provide secure, reliable access to the clinical apps and
information employees would need to do their jobs from home using
personal devices. “We basically said if you have a device, we'll
sort the VDI, we’ll make sure you can easily access all the Trust
systems, securely,” Hutchinson said.
Game-Changing Results
All the Trust’s support and patient administration services now
operate remotely through a virtual desktop on the devices of their
choice – from Macs to PCs. In addition, “We have senior clinicians
at home, self-isolating, who can still be online, securely
accessing their patients’ records to monitor their progress and
it's been a game-changer for them,” Hutchinson said.
And it was all accomplished in a matter of days. “Citrix enabled
us to respond extremely quickly to the unprecedented challenges of
Covid-19, and to continue business as usual without any negative
impact on patient services,” Hutchinson said. “We’re not scared to
say Citrix made all the difference. We couldn’t have moved this
quickly without it.”
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