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The Christie launches new app for patients
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new mobile phone app for patients and visitors.
The Christie app, developed by Wayfinder UK Ltd, will transform the way patients and visitors find their way around Manchester’s cancer centre.
Making use of Google’s ‘blue dot’ technology and more than 7 specially installed Bluetooth beacons throughout the hospital, the app will guide patients and visitors to anywhere they need to get on the hospital site.
This is the first time such accurate ‘blue dot’ technology has been deployed in an NHS hospital making use of Bluetooth beacons.
The new app will not only help patients find the various treatment, consultation and diagnostic facilities around the hospital, but will also guide them to refreshment areas, retail facilities, the garden, the cancer information room, and other services for patients and visitors.
Key information for patients on the app includes important phone numbers and details of public transport including buses.
It also incorporates 10 defining moments from The Christie’s history, with information popping up of places of significance to the hospital in the treatment of cancer for over 100 years.
Roger Spencer, Christie chief executive, said: “This is an exciting innovation for The Christie and will make a big difference to our patients, not only helping them find their way around the hospital, but opening up services and facilities they may not even have been aware of previously. We want patients to feel comfortable and fully informed when they are here - the app provides a rich immersive experience for them. I’d urge all our patients and visitors to download the app today.”
Mike Slater, managing director of Wayfinder UK Ltd, said: “It has been a pleasure to work with a world leading client such as The Christie to launch its app. We have been developing the WayfinderApp platform for the last three years and The Christie will be the first hospital in the country to benefit from this technology.”
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