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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.
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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.