Ambulance crews responding to emergencies across Wales are to use critical address and vehicle routing information from Dotted Eyes, the leading provider of spatial data solutions.
It follows a competitive tender by the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust - the UK’s third largest ambulance service - designed to equip frontline and control room managers with the best available digital mapping products.
The contract award is Dotted Eyes’ third major public sector procurement win in just over a year.
The company secured a landmark collective purchase agreement to supply digital maps to the NHS in May 2008 and earlier this year it won part of the wider Pan-Government Agreement, by which central government organisations source their main mapping data.
Dotted Eyes Managing Director Benjamin Allan said: ‘This third major contract win reflects our success in delivering consistency and quality with an absolute focus on the needs of the customer.
‘The Welsh Ambulance Service will benefit from fully interoperable address and transport mapping data that works across their systems to support emergency response, resource management, service planning and performance analysis.’
Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust Programme Manager Gavin Bryce said: ‘We are committed to investing in technology that supports improvements to response times to our patients at their point of need.
‘The outcome of this tendered contract marks a significant step forward and complements a number of key projects. Most notably it will support operational crews in navigation when we launch our mobile data terminals later in the year.’
The one-year contract will see the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust using two Dotted Eyes’ datasets - Transport Map and AddressView Plus - for command and control and in mobile terminals among a fleet of 700 vehicles.
TransportMap is based on Ordnance Survey’s most detailed road network data, the OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network Layer. TransportMap includes comprehensive restriction and advisory route information such as weight and width restrictions - ideal for vehicle fleet management.
AddressView Plus, based on OS MasterMap Address Layer 2, includes postal addresses and sub-divided buildings that have a single external letter-box but multiple occupiers. These include housing association properties and student residences. The product contains names in English and Welsh and also covers properties without any postal address where emergency response can still be required.
Dotted Eyes is a Platinum partner of Ordnance Survey. Mark Salter, Ordnance Survey’s Head of Partners and Alliances, said: ‘Ordnance Survey data plays a vital role in the work of emergency services across Great Britain. We congratulate Dotted Eyes on their success with the Welsh Ambulance Service. The contract will deliver data benefits that will support many mission-critical activities.’
The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust employs more than 2,500 people and covers the whole of Wales. It receives £72 million in annual funding and attends more than 250,000 emergency calls a year. Its geographic extent makes it the third largest ambulance service in the UK.
Dotted Eyes will be running various events in 2009, focusing on mapping and health. The first of these events will be hosted at our offices in Bromsgrove on the 5th March, and is aimed at PCTs. Attendees at the event are welcome from both organisations that are Members of the NHS Agreement, and organisations who have not yet signed up. Presentations at the event will focus on case study examples including addressing health inequalities, World Class Commissioning, mapping healthy living, using third party data sources to improve mapping, and siting services using GIS.
The PCT event will encourage networking and best practice sharing between organisations, and there will be plenty of opportunities for discussion and questions. Organisations can send more than one delegate to this free event, which includes a networking buffet lunch. Find out more on our NHS Events page.
Our other 2 events will be held on the 25th February, at the NHS Information Centre offices in London. These events are designed to introduce the Agreement to potential Members, and will include examples and user driven content based on the best practice use of mapping in health. Visit our NHS Events page to find out more, and register for the morning or afternoon session.
If you would like any further information then please contact Andrew Brittan on 01527 556925 or andrew.brittan@dottedeyes.com
MapInfo has confirmed that it will have shipped all MapInfo Professional 9.5 to maintenance customers by the end of July.
Any maintenance customers who haven’t received their upgrade by August 6th can email us and we will investigate the delay on their behalf.
If you are not on maintenance, but would like a quotation for an upgrade, please contact our Commercial Team on 01527 556920.
Dotted Eyes has been chosen by the NHS in England and Wales to provide digital mapping data to the NHS in a landmark four-year agreement.
The company has been awarded the contract following an OJEU competitive tendering process run by The NHS Information Centre (The IC) on behalf of both ambulance trusts and the wider NHS in England.
The new arrangement provides NHS organisations with a range of digital mapping data products available through a fixed schedule of prices.
Ben Allan, managing director of Dotted Eyes, said: “Around 500 NHS organisations including NHS trusts, strategic health authorities and primary care trusts can apply to purchase mapping data under the scheme. All 11 ambulance service NHS trusts have already signed up and we delivered a full set of core data products to them within hours of the contract being signed.”
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We exhibited and presented at Logistics Link South for the first time this year and were pleased to see the level of interest in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and the benefits it brings to logistics organisations.
Our commitment to this sector has been further boosted by the launch of our UK user groups. These will be held as follows:
20th March: Ordnance Survey Head Office, Southampton. 10am-3pm.
8th April: Dotted Eyes offices, near Birmingham. 10am-3pm.
Register now for your opportunity to meet fellow GIS users from the logistics sector plus Dotted Eyes’ and Ordnance Survey’s Transport and Logistics specialists. Each organisation can send multiple delegates free of charge - so if you have GIS colleagues, or you need to persuade a key decision maker of the business benefits of GIS - please encourage them to register. Alternatively, visit our Logistics page to request your free guide to GIS for logistics.
If you have any queries, please contact Owen Powell, our Account Manager for this sector, on 01527 556920.
We have been delighted by the response to our housing user groups - places are going quickly.
If you work for a housing organisation, and you’d like to explore how to use the various components of GIS (geographical information systems) to save time and money, please register for one of our events:
Southern User Group: March 19th, Ordnance Survey head office, Southampton (10am - 3pm)
Midlands and Northern User Group: April 9th, Dotted Eyes offices, Nr Birmingham (10am - 3pm)
Each organisation can send multiple delegates free of charge - so if you have GIS colleagues, or you need to persuade a key decision maker of the business benefits of GIS - please encourage them to register.
If you can’t make it, but would like one of our free guides, please complete the request form.
We know that by combining housing data with digital maps you can get an unparalleled picture of your organisation: visualising trends, such as increases in void properties; mapping information pertaining to residents, such as age, income and access to facilities; and even supporting stock acquisition and disposal planning. One of our goals for 2008 is to help more housing associations reap the benefits of this so-called location intelligence. (more…)
Join us on 4th December 2007 at 11AM for a free webinar introducing the benefits of FME, the industry standard spatial ETL platform for translating, transforming and integrating spatial data. (more…)
We’ve joined forces with GiSProfessional magazine to offer £500 worth of free MapInfo Professional v9.0 Introductory training to one lucky winner. For an entry form, see page 43 of the August 2007 edition. If you don’t have this edition to hand, email your details to marketing@dottedeyes.com and we’ll arrange for you to be sent a free copy.
If you are about to book a place on this course, or have already booked, do still enter the competition, as we will refund your course fees if you win! (more…)
Dotted Eyes is delighted to achieve Exor supplier accreditation. Dotted Eyes already supplies software and services to several hundred local authorities across the UK. (more…)
