Portsmouth NHS trust wins award for patient safety.

(From The Portsmouth Evening News)

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust was commended for its role in co-developing a revolutionary piece of technology called the VitalPAC. It is a hand-held computer which captures a patient's vital signs and other assessment data at the bedside. Data can then be viewed anywhere in the hospital by staff using PCs. It allows patients' vital signs to be recorder quicker, identifies when the next observation needs to be done, detects deterioration earlier and …