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O2 wins £390m deal for ambulance digital radios
News O2 Airwave has won a £390m contract to provide a new national digital radio and communications system for the UK ambulance service. The 13-year Airwave contract with the Department of Health (DoH) will see O2 replace the existing analogue radio... [19 Jul 2005]
eBay theft paramedics face NHS fraud probe
News Six of the seven resulted in police cautions and disciplinary action at work, while one paramedic from the Sussex Ambulance Service was sentenced to 100 hours community punishment last year. The NHS is investigating reports of paramedics selling... [17 May 2005]
£2.9bn police radio system completed on time
News The government is also in the middle of procuring new national radio networks for the Fire and Ambulance services and wants all the emergency forces' communications to be interoperable. The rollout of the £2.9bn Airwave police radio communications... [01 Apr 2005]
Motorbike tracking tags aim to cut theft and improve safety
News The telematics technology measures axial angle and G force and reports them to a central unit that can alert the police and ambulance services of any unusual reading associated with a serious accident. [21 Mar 2005]
Police to use Bluetooth to access intelligence records
News The fire and ambulance services are currently evaluating bids for their own digital radio network but the government has again delayed a decision on the choice of supplier. The lack of data-friendly handsets for the police's £2.9bn Tetra digital... [25 May 2004]
Emergency services to track mobile 999 calls
News It is expected to be operational in the next few months and Ofcom said it could help save lives through faster response times from the police, ambulance and fire services, as well as catching hoax callers. [16 Jan 2004]
Milton Keynes uses AI for terror threat
News Milton Keynes has created on online Rapid Response Information Service (RRIS) that will initially allow the police, fire, ambulance and health services to share information more quickly. Milton Keynes is using artificial intelligence technology... [04 Sep 2003]
Emergency services digital radio mess
Comment The fire service has been facing ageing and obsolete equipment for some time yet only after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the US did politicians realise that the police, fire and ambulance services all needed robust and... [03 Jul 2003]
We hope you like jamming too - banning mobiles in public places
Comment Similarly theatres and cinemas coped well in the past when they would use the landline to phone for an ambulance. Many others will still argue education is still the way - relying on people to police themselves by acting responsibly and showing... [15 Aug 2002]
mmO2 police profits come under the microscope
News In a meeting this week, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) questioned members of the PITO on why mmO2 was able to demand a 17 per cent profit margin on the 19-year Airwave contract, which will provide the police with a nationwide digital radio... [25 Apr 2002]
Police paying over the odds for radio network
News The Airwave system was originally intended for the three main emergency services, fire, police and ambulance, to use simultaneously - delivering lower costs, and saving lives in disaster situations by improving co-operation between the three... [11 Apr 2002]
Tony Blair's speech... (part three)
News This not only replaces the cumbersome and inefficient paper based approach, but will make it possible for an ambulance crew arriving at the scene of an accident to check a patients electronic health record through a handheld mobile device. [19 Nov 2001]
Emergency services get £2.5bn digital radio network
News Trials in Lancashire will produce integration with fire and ambulance services and units across the rest of the UK are expected to follow suit within the next five years. The Home Office has signed a £2.5bn deal with Motorola and BT for a digital... [08 Mar 2000]
Cable & Wireless accused of slowing emergency services
News claims C&WC databases are corrupted by outdated or missing addresses and cause operators to send police, fire or ambulance services in the wrong direction. Lives are being put at risk by outdated information in Cable & Wireless... [27 Nov 1998]
