By Jo Best, 25 April 2005 18:10
NEWS Ambulances are soon to be fitted out with location-tracking technology in an effort to improve fleet management and ensure organ donations can be transported in the shortest time possible.
Ambulances used by the Royal Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset NHS Ambulance Trusts will be fitted with GPRS tracking units, which will enable ambulance controllers to pinpoint the location of the vehicles using an application on their browsers.
The tracking devices, from Eagle Eye, have been installed in eight vehicles, with further rollouts planned for the near future.
Vehicle tracking has most commonly been seen in commercial use to date, with vendors pitching the service as a way to track mobile workforces.
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1. David
I hope they have more luck with GPRS than I do. It's invariably so painfully slow that they'd probably find carrier pigeons have more bandwidth. I foresee organs well past their sell-by date.
2. Steve Smith
This press release is missleading as no vehicles operated by Dorset Ambulance NHS Trust are fitted with eagle eye. The eight vehicles mentioned are operated by Medilogistics a private company which occasionaly is contracted by the NHS Trusts mentioned. PLease ammend your ptess reiease accordingly
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