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RSS ambulance£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The National Police Improvement Agency has signed the £39m contract with Airwave, the company that provides the mobile radio network used by every UK police force and currently being rolled out to every ambulance trust... [03 Nov 2009]
Richmond Ambulance Authority Turns to Webroot to Protect Mobile Devices
White Paper Richmond Ambulance Authority (RAA) provides Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to more than 200,000 people across Richmond, Va.making it one of the busiest per-capita systems in the nation. RAA needed a comprehensive Web... [01 Sep 2009]
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Case Study: St. John Ambulance
White Paper John Ambulance (SJA) is one of the oldest humanitarian organizations in the world. St. SJA was finding new ways to provide secure, reliable and cost effective communications. To further increase network connectivity for... [12 Jun 2009]
'Airwave does do data - unlike what some of the media say'
Comment O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone may loom large on most people's mobile radar but for the emergency services the name that matters is Airwave: every UK police force uses Airwave's Tetra network for their radio communications and, in the... [11 Jun 2009]
North East Ambulance Service Selects RAM Software Over Oracle Assets
White Paper The new North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust was formed on 1st July 2006 following the merger of the previous North East Ambulance Service and part of the Teesside, East and North Yorkshire... [09 Mar 2009]
Photo: Policing the depths of the Tube
Photo The system links the Metropolitan, British Transport and the City of London police forces, as well as the fire and ambulance services. However, as the fire and ambulance Airwave systems have not yet gone... [14 Jan 2009]
Disaster fighters link up with £2m tool
News The NRE will allow organisations such as police, fire, ambulance, utility companies and local government to securely swap reports from the ground when tackling emergencies using a built in emergency information... [10 Dec 2008]
Development of a Simulation and Data Visualisation Tool to Assist in Strategic Operations Management in Emergency Services
White Paper This paper discusses a simulation and analysis software tool 'BartSim' that has been developed as a strategic decision support tool for use within the St John Ambulance Service (Auckland Region) in New Zealand (St Johns). [06 Oct 2008]
Knowledge Management Portal Delivers High Quality Healthcare Information
White Paper NHS 24 is the main gateway to out-of-hours care in Scotland, linking patients with local NHS primary care out-of-hours services, Accident and Emergency departments, and the Scottish Ambulance Service. [01 Jul 2008]
Ambulance service loses 999 details
News The Scottish Ambulance Service has lost a disc containing the encrypted 999 call details of almost one million people. The Scottish Ambulance Service insisted there was little danger that people's 999... [25 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News The revelation came as it emerged that records of 894,629 calls made to the Scottish Ambulance Service had gone missing, after a portable hard drive being transported by courier went astray. A number of health trusts are... [24 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated ambulance service. Each ambulance has a Mercedes Benz engine... [30 May 2008]
Photos: India 999
Photo The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated ambulance service. For years the country has had no dedicated single number... [01 May 2008]
Hospital Transport Service Saves Money, Boosts Quality With Integrated-Data Solution
White Paper MedSTAR Transport provides air-medical and ground-ambulance services to tertiary-care facilities around Washington, D.C.and Baltimore and emergency transport to other area hospitals. To cope with a 25 percent growth rate... [16 Apr 2008]
Government reveals snooping figures
News Hundreds of UK public bodies are authorised to intercept individuals' communications, including the Ambulance Service and Fire Authorities, the British Transport Police, HM Revenue & Customs, Secret Intelligence Service,... [30 Jan 2008]
