BT, the parent company of Esat BT, has welcomed the fact that it has been awarded a ten-year contract, worth £996m (€1419m) over the next ten years, by Britain's Department of Health as part of the NHS National Programme for IT.

LogicaCMG has said it has been awarded a 10-year contract expected to be worth over £100m (€141.8m) as a member of the BT Group team for the NHS National Programme for IT within the UK's National Health Service.