Improving patient care

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Improving patient care
OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network Layer
(ITN) and OS MasterMap Address Layer data helps
improve patient transport services
NHS Trusts are increasingly responsible
for transporting patients that are in their care.
By using OS MasterMap ITN and Address layer data
within the Cleric APTS system to calculate
optimum routes, East Kent Hospitals Trust (EKHT)
are able to collect, deliver and repatriate
patients to their home in a more timely manner.
As a result of this implementation, EKHT are
seeing a 15 improvement in their service
delivery.
OS MasterMap, now part of our logistical
planning software has improved our essential
flexibility to deliver a patient led service at
EKHT. The qualitative and quantitative data we
are now able to access will enable the service
model to be revised more readily to support
patient choice, service reconfiguration as policy
and patient needs demand. Irene Hayward, Head of
Healthcare Transport, Facilities Directorate,
East Kent Hospitals Trust.