Peterborough’s new mental health unit, The Cavell Centre, has installed access control system to provide security management. The hospital awarded the contract to local approved SALTO business partner, Turentek Ltd.
On the grounds of the Edith Cavell Hospital site, which will eventually be called the Edith Cavell Healthcare Campus, The Cavell Centre is part of the £335m Greater Peterborough Health Investment Plan (GPHIP).
It comprises a 104-bed mental health unit offering patients purpose-built accommodation with single en-suite bedrooms. Facilities include adult acute psychiatric wards, a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit, older people’s mental health unit and a specialist service for people with learning disabilities. The accommodation also includes restaurant-style dining facilities for patients, staff and visitors, an information centre, a fitness and recreational centre and landscaped gardens.
"As the only healthcare-tailored access control system, the XS4 solution was ideal for The Cavell Centre," says Turentek Director Neil Aspinshaw. "Working in consultation with the Centre and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust we designed a highly secure and flexible access control system to meet all needs of the end user, which provides long term care of young adult, elderly and primary care patients.
The system design incorporates XS4 Scandinavian electronic locks on 104 residential bedrooms, each fitted with Turentek Ovation anti-ligature handles.
Three reception areas at the unit run SQL server software to control access to all the bedrooms, with individual access for staff and residents controlled via Mifare proximity smart fobs. Visitors to the unit are issued with temporary fobs at reception, allowing strictly zoned and timed access to a specific person/area as necessary.
"With our ability to customise both system hardware and software, the XS4 solution has added considerable flexibility to the design of the security system at The Cavell Centre and given them the keyless access they wanted in the new mental health unit," says Ramesh Gurdev, UK Sales Manager at SALTO Systems.
"To help operations at the unit run more efficiently all the stand alone electronic locks are battery operated, the lack of hard wiring needed being particularly important in the installation, and all have emergency key override for staff use as required.”
The XS4 supports unlimited users. Specifically developed for use in stand-alone operations it provides wire-free networked electronic locking.
This means that any expansion can be accommodated since it can be easily to almost any existing lock and door, turning them into fully featured access control doors.
