Staff at Noble’s Hospital are now using a smartphone-based emergency alert system that eliminates the need for pagers and is said to improve response times to urgent calls.

Manx Care’s ’SmartPage Clinical’ gives clinicians instantaneous two-way messaging, and enables rapid clinical decision-making.

It improves the acute referral process from the accident and emergency department to inpatient care in terms of referral acceptance and time to speciality review, and also provides medics and support teams with a system that allows them to create and share tasks.

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Previously, clinicians used a paging system which Manx Care said needed to modernised.

The development and implementation of SmartPage Clinical has been led by Manx Care’s chief clinical information officer, Dr Gregor Peden, and chief nursing information officer, Rebecca Erani, with support from colleagues in Government Technology Services.

Teresa Cope, Manx Care’s chief executive, said: ’Having a communication tool that allows staff to talk and exchange messages quickly in any health and care system is important, but in an urgent and emergency care setting this is critical.

’Since we implemented SmartPage in Noble’s Hospital, we’ve received positive feedback from colleagues around its simplicity, reliability and functionality, and I’m looking forward to see how we can further utilise this technology across other departments and teams.

’Manx Care is undergoing a significant programme of transformation in order for us to achieve our aspiration to become the best small-island health and care system in the world, and digital transformation is critical to this.’