Wandsworth Healthcare partnered with the Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust in ‘an innovative installation’ of IPiN, a fully IP nurse call system complete ‘with mobile integrations’.
Wandsworth was selected to supply its ‘fully IP’ IPiN nurse call solution to the 953-bed Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, built under a £229 m PFI scheme. The installation is still ongoing. The company says IPiN ‘harnesses the opportunities that IP-based nurse call provides – from centralised administration and reporting, to an array of third party integration options’. It added: “IPiN provides a fully IPbased system from source to bed level.
“By incorporating our ‘IPIN Mobile’ functionality into its IPiN system (HEJ – August 2015), Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has also invested in the potential for mobile nurse call. Integrating IPiN Mobile allows nurse, emergency, and cardiac calls, plus ‘admin’ and reporting, to be viewable, in real time, on allocated Android mobile phones, without staff having to be at a fixed nurse station.”
The IPiN Mobile nurse call system operates over the Trust’s Wi-Fi network, and is currently used across the hospital’s Cardiology and Cardiac Care units, configured to ensure staff at varying levels only receive the calls applicable to them. It is also being utilised by the hospital’s chosen maintenance / service and support company, whose engineers can receive, view, and analyse, live fault diagnostic reports on their mobile devices.
