Alarms

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3 January 2011

Scottish NHS staff get GPS alert devices

Mobile tracking and alert devices are to be issued to staff in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to protect them
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19 May 2010

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
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7 May 2009

Lone NHS workers get safety alarms

The Department of Health has announced that 30,000 lone NHS workers are to get personal safety alarms incorporating location tracking
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29 April 2009

Hubs create technology for Digital Britain

Research Councils UK has unveiled a five year, £36m programme to develop new digital technologies. Three research hubs in Nottingham,
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18 March 2009

Data blindness

The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far
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11 November 2008

Promised safety alarms not delivered

Four out of five community nurses do not have access to a personal safety alarm despite a government pledge to
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8 May 2008

Ofcom forecasts growth in healthcare IT

Media regulator Ofcom has picked healthcare as a key sector for the widespread deployment of information technology in its latest
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13 March 2008

Tunstall sell controlling interest to Charterhouse

Charterhouse Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has acquired a controlling interest in The Tunstall Group, in a transaction totalling
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28 September 2007

NHS to invest in new digital alarms for staff

New safety alarm devices for lone workers will be provided to 30,000 NHS workers, as part of the Department of
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1 August 2007

RFID on the frontline

Using RFID to track high value medical equipment can save time and money, argues, Cisco's Terry Espiner.
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