Excelerate Technology worked closely with the Department of Health's HART programme to design, specify, trial, implement and provide ongoing support for HART forward command vehicles - and as a result are the only approved provider to the UK Ambulance Service.
As part of the National HART framework Contract (ref:CM/FMT/07/4729) 13 HART Mobile Incident Response Vehicles (MIRVS) have currently been deployed in England with 5 more scheduled for 2011. Scotland have also deployed 2 SORT (equivalent to HART) units which will shortly be followed by the launch of The Welsh Ambulance Services, MIRV.
In addition to supporting national ambulance initiatives, such as the HART programme, Excelerate's solutions also provide invaluable support for new ways of saving lives and improving patient care during day-to-day ambulance operations throughout the UK. Live wireless video footage and robust, fast two-way communications distributed by satellite broadband now give ambulance and hospital medical teams the capability to provide remote diagnostic support while patients are still at accident and emergency sites, thereby saving lives where fast action is required.
Improved communications for complex operations, such as major accidents and multi-agency operations, also help improve command decision making and resource allocation. Wireless cameras worn by paramedics can provide other team members and other emergency services with a clearer picture of what issues crews are encountering and enable support to be provided more promptly.
South Central Ambulance Service, West Midlands Ambulance Service,Great Western Ambulance Service and South Western Ambulance Service all use Incident Command vehicles featuring Excelerate's advanced satellite broadband and other communications solutions
The most advanced emergency command vehicles in the world
in recent years the new generation of emergency command vehicles introduced by UK fire and rescue, ambulance and police services has helped support huge improvements in the way these services manage the different types of incidents with which they deal. In the past commanders and their support teams used old style incident command vehicles, usually little more than mobile (paper) map rooms with a few radios and whiteboards.
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