Case Study: The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust achieves testing at scale for a million new patient cases every 36 hours with Keysight Eggplant

Scaling to Test for a Million New Patient Cases Every 36 Hours

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist mental health trust in Camden, London, faced the NHS-wide challenge of moving from legacy systems to configurable electronic patient records (Advanced Care Notes) while coping with the scale of the service — roughly a million new patient cases every 36 hours. Multi-vendor, highly configured platforms were creating iterative-change and testing burdens on clinicians, nurses, administrators and in-house developers, requiring faster, more rigorous testing to keep patient risk low.

Keysight deployed its Eggplant test automation and Robotic Process Automation platform to automate end-to-end testing across Advanced Care Notes, the student information management system and timetabling tools. Keysight’s Eggplant enabled reusable, graphical interfaces so business analysts — not just specialist developers — could build most test and automation flows, significantly reducing developer testing workload, increasing clinician-driven testing, and allowing the Trust to scale testing and change velocity while maintaining low patient risk.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

David Wyndham Lewis

Director of Transformation and Technology