Nedap AEOS access control system manages security at Crawley & Horsham Hospital, West Sussex

Project overview

A hospital works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, non–stop, and security needs to be guaranteed for the access of different people that use the hospital (patients, doctors, nurses, visitors, etc.). It is therefore very important to control lockdown. In response to NHSLA requirements to undertake a risk profile of lockdown procedures Nedap was invited to visit Crawley & Horsham Hospital in Crawley, West Sussex. The hospitals security team wished to explore new technologies available to enable them to adhere to the new directives in an easier and more effective manner.

Definition

When security of patients, staff or assets is at risk by any identified threat or hazard, a lockdown should be achieved. Lockdown is the process of controlling the movement and access of people, including staff, patients and visitors within a specific building or area. Entry, exit and movements of people within an NHS site can be controlled by both security employees and physical security measures.

Implementation

The ability to enable the hospital to follow the NHSLA lockdown directives was the main goal. But the security team was keen to explore their future options to gain the most out of any new investment. Therefore they opted for a flexible solution that offered the possibility to integrate new technologies at any time and that could be managed centrally with other disciplines of security.

Initially the scope was to secure all doors that covered the main access areas within the hospital. Due to the flexibility and feature rich benefits of Nedap's AEOS security management platform, the trust security team decided to transfer total control of security management to AEOS.

Nedap also offers products available through additional license purchase or integration options; such as vehicle and car park security, secure lockers and medicine cabinets, CCTV management and patient wandering security.

Rima Dutt, hospital trust team: “Working with the Nedap team made the migration to AEOS a smooth transition and has benefitted in giving a far more secure and manageable system with the knowledge that future policy changes and demands will be easily met and better yet, improved upon! The lockdown policy as well as access control, security management and CCTV are now centrally managed over the entire estate via the AEOS Security Management platform.”