Long Eaton Health Centre implements VoIP system
Long Eaton Health Centre, an all-in-one clinic in Derbyshire County PCT has gone live with a new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony system from NEC Philips Unified Solutions. The SOPHO 2000 IPS will provide Long Eaton with a hybrid IP communications infrastructure allowing a smooth migration towards fully scalable native IP telephony, saving the […]
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Essex awards BT VoIP over N3 contract
Essex Strategic Health Authority has awarded a contract to BT to link up all of its healthcare organisations’ phone communications with VoIP over N3, the new NHS broadband network being installed across England as part of the National Programme for IT. BT, which is also rolling out the N3 network nationally, will put IP telephony […]
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Cornwall NHS staff get VoIP phone badges
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has issued its staff with voice-activated handsfree ‘badges’, worn around the neck on a lanyard, which can put any user in touch with another member of staff just by saying their name or department into a microphone. The Vocera system (below), which was installed and is managed by BT, runs […]
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Unravelling cable
Getting your structured cabling in order is important to installing new IT systems on any site, argues Rosemary McGlashon from 3M.
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University College London NHS Trust goes wireless
University College London NHS Foundation Trust has completed installation of an advanced wireless network, thought to be the largest yet implemented in the NHS. The new Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), implemented by Aruba Networks, has been installed across the whole of the trust to support UCLH’s move to become a ‘paperless’ hospital. UCLH will […]
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London trusts go for IP telephony
Matrix Communications has won two large-scale contracts worth around £1m to provide new Mitel IP telephony (IPT) solutions to four NHS trusts in the London boroughs of Camden and Islington. The contracts cover the Camden Primary Care Trust (PCT), Islington PCT and Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust – all served by […]
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Internet telephones installed in hospital trusts
Two hospital trusts in London and Birmingham have had Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone systems installed across their sites in the hope of saving money and reducing the load on their existing networks. The systems, installed by BT at Guy’s & St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, will […]
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