TV solution for mental health facilities

Lindsay Davies (pictured), who joined Airwave as business development manager in January from Patientline, says the company is now developing a reputation for supplying patient information and specialist TV systems not just to large acute Trusts, but equally to facilities for the mentally unwell. One of the first installations she visited at Airwave was Nottingham’s Rampton Hospital, where the company had already installed over 400 TVs in individual rooms. Patients had previously brought in their own TVs, but this presented problems, for instance when they moved rooms. Now they have their own set, offering a good selection of appropriate TV channels, a Trust channel, and a radio channel.

In some rooms TVs are wall- or deskmounted, with a cover cap over the back to make them safe and secure and easy to clean, while in others, housing security or self-harm risk patients, they are encased within the same robust Perspex shroud used in the Pennine Care NHS Trust application.

Lindsay Davies said: “Staff can control what channels are available and block unsuitable material from the ward PC, by ward, and by patient.”

Lindsay Davies has now prepared “packages” tailored to mental health departments’ needs, and encourages Trusts considering refurbishments, upgrades or new builds to contact her.