Health minister Ben Bradshaw said the firm, which has already agreed to support the Cerner Millennium software installations at eight acute trusts in the south, will deploy the system at four more acute trusts.
BT will also deploy RiO software at 25 mental and community health sites in the south. The firm has already installed the software in this kind of trust within London.
In a parliamentary written answer on 23 April 2009, Bradshaw said that the government has paid £92.8m as "working capital to aid with infrastructure, planning and development work in advance of the deployment of systems and services... and in return for a reduction in payments to be earned for future successful delivery".
He added that BT has received a further £183,000 relating to work already carried out with NHS bodies in the south, "as a consequence of termination of the contract with Fujitsu".
Bradshaw said the government has signed contract change notices with BT, but the details of these will not be provided at this stage as they could compromise further negotiations regarding the NHS in the south of England. The region's health service IT was supported by Fujitsu until it was fired by the government last year.
A BT spokesperson confirmed the firm has signed a contract for the work, adding that NHS Connecting for Health for provide an update on this in due course.
Connecting for Health said it was not able to add anything to Bradshaw's statement at the moment. Neither BT nor CfH would say which trusts are covered by the new deal.
