Wandsworth Group has installed its IPiN Ethernet-based nurse call system into a live environment within the Cardiac Ward, Accident & Emergency Unit, and Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) of South Tyneside District Hospital as part of a rolling upgrade.
Its team has already completed the installation in the A&E, Integrated Emergency Care, SCBU, and Wards 6 and 7, as part of the general refurbishment programme. IPiN units were installed for each of the 30 beds in Ward 6, which combines cardiac care and integrated emergency provision. The SCBU installation saw six units installed on medical service columns. Wandsworth and the South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust will move on to the next phase of the refurbishment gradually, ‘providing the flexibility and futureproofing advantages offered by IPiN across the hospital’. Wandsworth’s Dave Aubrey explains: “The IPiN system offers the flexibility of a wireless system, with hard-wired reliability, in a highly functional nurse call system that is simple for patients to use, and offers advanced functionality for nursing staff and hospital management. The full colour touchscreen nurses’ station display unit locates and prioritises calls, while the Ethernet-based system records valuable management data. IPiN’s hard-wired nature allows its integration with a traditional ‘lamps’ system, while offering future flexibility to reconfigure without having to re-wire.”
