Case Study: Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust achieves rapid recovery, immutable backups and 75% faster clinic backups with Veeam Data Platform

With cyber-attacks across the NHS rising — the Royal Wolverhampton Trust deploys Veeam for data resilience

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, one of the largest healthcare providers in the West Midlands (employing over 9,400 staff and supporting thousands of users across hospitals and 50 clinics), faced growing cyber‑attack risk and the very real prospect of service‑disrupting outages. Its backup environment was fragmented—tape-based backups at each clinic and multiple legacy tools—placing heavy manual burdens on a small IT team and creating recovery delays that could impact patient care.

The Trust consolidated onto the Veeam Data Platform, centralizing and automating backups for hospitals and clinics, storing 30 days on fast ExaGrid storage, and implementing immutable, encrypted off‑site copies. The change cut clinic backup time by 75%, reduced recovery from days to hours (or less), freed clinic staff and phone lines from backup tasks, and significantly strengthened the Trust’s ability to recover quickly from cyber incidents.

Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust

John Lau Royal

Server Engineer