A Slough hospital has a wireless infant tagging and integrated door access security system.
Wexham Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust decided on an upgrade to its security. Yorkshire-based Reflex Systems was installer. Nurses can fit mother and baby with matching RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, which provides 24 hour monitoring. This includes reporting any unauthorised exit through protected doorways, tag removal or loss of signal, via alarm.
The integrated system means that any alarms triggered by the infant tags will result in a sequenced door lock-down and live sounding of alarms locally, at the nurses’ stations, as well as at the central security desk.
Reflex integrated site-wide CCTV monitoring with the alarms, which gives nursing staff real-time surveillance of the area. Kay Loudon-Bruce, Head of Security at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “It was really important to us that the baby tagging system we chose was simply to use, as well as being extremely secure. As nursing staff need to be able to spend their time nursing, we didn’t want them to require lots of technical knowledge in order to be able to operate the system. Reflex Systems has delivered a technologically sound, robust infant tagging solution that means we can trust in the system to do its job in providing the best possible protection for mothers and their babies.”
John Pye, pictured, Managing Director of Rotherham-based Reflex, said: “We designed this system using the very latest, fully integrated technology to ensure we can provide complete peace of mind to hospital staff and their maternity patients. It was also important that the system controlled access in a practical way that allows operational freedom for staff, reasonable access to families and compliance to other building management needs too. Because of our extensive experience in working in the healthcare sector, we were able to work flexibly and sensitively to meet the needs of the hospital and its patients.”
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a population of more than 450,000 which includes Ascot, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Slough, south Buckinghamshire and Windsor. Wexham Park Hospital itself provides services including general medicine and its sub-specialties includes pediatrics.
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