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Scotland plans mobile kit for patient transport

The Scottish Ambulance Service expects to purchase mobile data equipment for its patient transport service

The organisation has published a tender for hardware, application development, system interfacing, installation and maintenance for about 625 vehicles based throughout Scotland.

The patient transport service is used by patients for pre-arranged hospital appointments, or admission and discharge from hospital, rather than for 999 emergency calls.

The tender, published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 2 March 2010, did not provide an estimate of the deal's cost.

In 2009, the Scottish Ambulance Service started a pilot of remote access to the country's Emergency Care Summary records from its emergency ambulances in the Lothian health board area. According to its ICT strategy, it plans to develop this access for frontline ambulances and emergency medical dispatch centres in 2010.


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