Emergency services’ may be left unable to share radios for 6 months
The emergency services could be unable to communicate with each other for six months in 2020, a Public Accounts Committee inquiry has warned.
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Yorks ambulance staff get Airwave alarms
Yorkshire Ambulance Service is to equip more than 900 staff with Omnigard, a personal safety system from Airwave. Omnigard allows a communications centre to monitor staff when they are working alone or in potentially threatening situations and to dispatch help quickly if required. It is designed for use with the Airwave radio service that is being deployed […]
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EHI’s industry round up 22.12.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up includes news about the benefits that trusts are seeing from deploying new technology, launches and partnerships between leading healthcare technology companies. Trusts reaps service desk accreditation benefits The Primary Care Informatics Unit covering NHS Blackburn with Darwen and NHS East Lancashire says it has seen "tangible benefits" since […]
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Airwave cuts ‘will not affect ambulances’
Airwave has said that staffing cuts will not affect its ability to deliver new radio communications to ambulance services by the end of 2009. The emergency services communications network has made almost 100 redundancies across its departments in response to the economic downturn. These have sparked industrial action. About 180 members of the Communication Worker’s […]
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Airwave on tube but few ambulances
The Airwave radio network has been rolled out on the London Underground and has been presented as a step forward for the troubled digital communications project.
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Unstable radio controls halt Airwave deployments
The Airwave radio system in use The Department of Health has had to cease deployments of Airwave radio systems to ambulance trusts across England due to instability issues with the new touch screen controls. Martin Flaherty, director of operations at London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, revealed the issue when responding to a request from the […]
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Digital radio ready for national use, says pilot site
The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust has completed a pilot of the Airwave digital radio scheme and says it is ready for national roll out across England. The trust was the first ambulance service to use the system, which is scheduled to go live across the rest of the country within the next […]
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Delays in emergency service radios ’cause for concern’
Concerns have been raised about delays in implementing Airwave radio systems within emergency services in London, to ensure full coverage in the event of a terrorist attack. The London Assembly 7 July Review Committee has warned that London Ambulance Service would be ill prepared for another underground terrorist attack due to continuous postponements of Airwave […]
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Wales to digitise ambulance radio network
The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust is to receive £55m from the Welsh Assembly government to invest in the O2 Airwave communication system and upgrade their control rooms. O2 Airwave is a secure digital radio network dedicated for the exclusive use of the UK’s emergency and public safety services. Designed to carry voice and data […]
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7/7 report announces new radios for ambulances
Ambulance services will get a new radio system, O2 Airwave, allowing them to communicate from underground in the event of an attack. The news was revealed in a Home Office report on the 7 July bombings as a response to criticism suggesting failures in the telecommunication equipment used by the emergency services led to a […]
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