Vocera system rides into Robin Hood country
By Jo Best
Published: 23 February 2007 16:30 GMT
Doctors and nurses in the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are ditching the traditional phone and pager for a voice over IP system from BT.
Around 1,200 medical staff in Nottinghamshire are now carrying Vocera VoIP devices which can place voice calls over the hospital's BT wireless LAN. The system will now be deployed across the Nottinghamshire trust.
The devices are worn by personnel as lapel badges. Hospital workers contact with each other by saying a name into the Vocera device.
Jeffrey Worrall, Sherwood Forest's chief executive, said the system speeds up the process of sending accident and emergency admissions to the appropriate wards and has increased efficiency.
The system has also been deployed in the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and at hospitals in Minnesota.
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