Acute Mental Health Inpatient Centre, Belfast City Hospital

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Johnson Controls provide integrated Nurse Call System for Belfast Hospital

Johnson Controls worked closely with the NHS to design and install an integrated combined Nurse Call with Portable Staff Attack / Real Time Location System.

The design brief was to provide the safest possible solution for patients and staff alike. It was important the hospital partnered with a company that was flexible enough to successfully implement the system and then provide on-going support over a longer term. As well meeting high security standards in respect of the integrity of the platforms and patient/staff interfacing components, it was also important that day-to-day staff workflows were facilitated by the system.

Here is a breakdown of the system installed:

Bedroom Components

  • Trust wide usable keyswitch (Normal / Isolate / Reset)
  • Reminder alerts if bed keyswitch is left in an isolate position
  • Rugged stainless steel construction with security screws
  • Secure anti-ligature WC pull cords
  • In-bedroom near field staff detection
  • In-bathroom microwave staff detection

Security Grade Over-Door Lights

  • Unique customisable colour combinations
  • Safe follow-me mode to direct security to where they are needed
  • Individually monitored secure lamp segments
  • Toughened stainless steel security covers
  • High-intensity rich colours
  • Fully synchronised HTM compliant tone sounds

Ultra-Safe Real-Time Location Badges

  • Staff-safe LF near field detection (Signal cannot be blocked)
  • Detection of entry/exit into/out of rooms
  • RF incorporated for additional peace of mind
  • Two user-definable buttons incorporated
  • Photo ID holder
  • Automatic low battery warnings
  • Reduced transmission rate to preserve battery life

Rules to Enhance Security

  • Staff alarm generated if bed key switch left in isolate position
  • Lights illuminate route to staff in danger when staff attack mode triggered
  • High granularity solution for precise location reporting
  • Staff timer reminder alert if bed key switch left in isolate
  • Audible/graphical real time location display

Super Safe Network

  • Fully decentralised system – No single point of failure
  • Redundancy feature to allow calls from both networks to be shown on both sets of displays in the same zone.
  • System redundancy
  • High integrity fan-less 24hr servers
  • Secure remote access facility

Flexible Future Upgrade Options

  • Inter-departmental speech option
  • Asset tagging to allow fast location of key equipment
  • Asset software to lower inventory costs
  • Automatic staff-to-patient response time software
  • Patient wristbands featuring tamper alerts
  • Lone worker man-down tags

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