The NHS Plan required that all large acute hospital trusts provide access to personal bedside TV, telephone and radio services by 2004 and most have done so. Intouch with Health has worked with the major system suppliers so that Intouch’s health information services can be accessed from bedside terminals.

Benefits

- No cost to patients who can help themselves to information at any time
- Staff on their ward rounds can use information to support discussions with patients
- The Trust pays only for the information service, the infrastructure is already available
- An efficient means of providing a comprehensive inpatient information service