It’s free to use, available to everyone and enables users to listen, watch, read and learn, as well as organise meals or service requests themselves.
£182,000
SAVING ON FOOD WASTAGE
£25,000
SAVINGS FOUND VIA SURVEYS
£15,000
AD REVENUE GENERATED
£1000s
SAVED ON NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

“This new service is a great example of how digital solutions meet the aspirations of the wider care and support we can offer our patients”
Liam McLaughlin
Acting Chief Information Officer, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, 2021

The benefits for:
Patients
Staff
Patients Staff
Efficiency
- Access a huge amount of resources in one place
- Questions answered without staff intervention
Engagement
- Surveys and feedback
- Polls
- Charity
- Hospital & Trust News
Entertainment
- Newspapers & Magazines
- TV & streaming
- Games
- Films
- Video calling
Education
- NHS Apps
- Healthcare videos
- NHS choices
Efficiency
- Access a huge amount of resources
- Clinical access
- Always accessible
- Telephony services
Engagement
- Newsletters
- Staff groups
- Social events & comms
- Trust news
Entertainment
- Newspaper & magazines
- TV & streaming
- Games
- Films
- Video calling
Education
- Conduit for training materials
- Direct contact with training staff
The benefits for Trusts:
EXPLORE A RANGE OF SPARK® PACKAGES FOR YOU TO CHOOSE FROM
Pick and choose the platform options for your visitors or patients. Each can be deployed as standalone or together as a complete solution.
SPARK® PRINT
SPARK® ENTERTAIN
SPARK® ENGAGE
SPARK® CLINICAL
SPARK® UNITE
News & Magazines
Provide your customers and visitors with free access to digital print content from a wide range of common publications.. Perfect for waiting areas or communal rooms on wards and a real benefit in reducing boredom.. Customers can use their own devices to view the latest magazines and newspapers digitally.

Patient engagement suite & clinical access
SPARK® Clinical can integrate with your clinical solutions using PAS integration and/or HL7 integration, enabling clinicians to show the patient key information about their health journey. Staff can also use it to access the patient’s records and clinical systems.

Video calling & premium streaming
A way to enable people to see and speak to each other over the internet using apps like Skype, Messenger or Hangouts. The service allows access to any wall-gardened web links, as well as their own streaming sites such as iPlayer and Netflix, and access to digital magazines and newspapers.

“SPARK® Media is massive for us as it means out patients, visitors and staff all have free access to an entertainment platform on any device. As it’s free and easy to use, it’s accessible to everybody.”
Lisa Thompson
Director of Communications and UHNM Charity,
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust





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