30 January 2014
St. Andrew’s is the United Kingdom’s largest charitable provider of secure mental health care. It specialises in learning disabilities, progressive and neuro-degenerative conditions as well as acquired brain injury and offers state-of-the-art therapeutic and recreational facilities. Some 3,500 staff are employed at the main site in Northampton and at regional units in Essex, Birmingham and Nottinghamshire.
St. Andrew’s Northampton site stretches across 106 acres of parkland and features a golf course, chapel, multi-gym, school and indoor swimming pool. Residents are accommodated in primary care suites or units with their own private gardens.
The security of staff and patients is of primary concern for St. Andrew’s and this has resulted in the deployment of a secure wireless network across its campuses. Delivered by Motorola partner REACT Technologies together with St. Andrew’s technology partner Comtact, the infrastructure supports voice, data and real-time tracking of staff protection devices – indoors and outside.
