North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus has signed a five-year contract with British Telecommunications (BT) today to equip community nurses with GPRS-enabled laptops that will allow them to access critical patient information at the point of care.

BT will provide its ‘Mobile Health Worker Solution’, a managed service that includes a help desk, business management for a single point of contact and lightweight Panasonic semi-rugged ToughBook laptops for the community nurses. These have GPRS mobile phone communications and BT’s Field Force Automation technology. The shock-resistant laptops will allow secure access to clinical records, email and support systems and databases when visiting patients in the community, either at home or in a remote clinic. An early pilot completed in the community has revealed that the Mobile Health Worker technology improves patient care and delivers proven productivity and cost savings, estimated at more than

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