A NATIONAL conference has been told of the ‘revolutionary’ use of technology by nurses in Lancashire Various projects run by Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, which employs district nurses and mental health staff across the county, were highlighted at the Enterprise Mobility Summit 2014 in London earlier this month. According to Computing.co.uk, the trust’s health informatics director, Declan Hadley, told the summit that nurses had been given mobile devices with digital calendars, appointments systems and reporting tools, which has successfully reduced paperwork and avoided trips back to the office to fill in forms.

He said many senior nurses ‘did not take too easily to the technology’, but they are now comfortable with using it, and added: “Recently it was mooted that we might have to take the technology off of them and there was almost a riot. They were not prepared to go back.”