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Traditionally, hospitals often had a dispatcher, a person sat at a central desk, taking calls from across all wards and departments where a porter is needed. Just as porters could be needed at any time of the day or night so was this co-ordination function, making it quite an expensive overhead. This
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proposed in 2020 to extend its soft facilities management contract with ISS Mediclean until 2025 170 of the trust’s 464 doctors complained to the chief executive that their colleagues in cleaning, portering, catering and security services received worse pay and worse terms and conditions than NHS
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and departments and to move goods and vital supplies including medical equipment, linen, blood, and samples. This is generally not regarded as skilled work , it attracts little attention and pay and conditions are generally among the lowest in the
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function which allows it to send a job ticket to the users device and they can then respond accordingly. The dispatcher can see any responses to jobs and can contact the porter through radio communications to resolve any issues.
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is an online based system designed to create and allocate tasks to Hospital Porters through Handheld Radio devices such as the
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often led to the outsourcing of such work to private contractors. When
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has been introduced across several hospitals in England.
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More recently, an online, proprietary system called
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