Safeguarding patients and protecting the public

Reliance works with NHS Mental Health Trusts to provide location based patient monitoring, safeguarding forensic mental health patients within the perimeter of a secure facility or in the wider community.

The device combines a GPS receiver, processor and communication components and has been designed to be as comfortable and unobtrusive as possible for the wearer. The device is smaller and lighter than any other currently available but can accurately locate a patient to within a few metres. We correlate location based information and patient data with mapping software at our secure remote monitoring facility that triggers an exception alert if a virtual boundary or conditions of release are breached, enabling our personnel to take appropriate action in accordance with a bespoke escalation procedure agreed with your hospital.

Our solution offers a range of benefits to the NHS:

• Facilitates the sympathetic reintegration of patients into the community
• Supports faster rehabilitation, freeing up beds
• Provides a cost effective complement to residential care or direct supervision
• Better liaison between police forces and mental health trusts
• Increases public / patient confidence and safety
• Alerts to curfew violations and prompts rapid response, enabling mental health providers to fulfil their duty of care

For more information download our brochure and find out how South London & Maudsley are currently using location based monitoring for their patients.