Conquest Hospital Conquest Hospital is a modern District General Hospital. Built over four levels, the hospital opened 16 years ago and in 2002 merged with Eastbourne Hospital to form East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust serving the population of East Sussex. The Trust employs over 5000 staff and The Conquest is an extremely busy hospital. In the last year the maternity teams delivered 3835 babies; 95,393 people were treated as inpatients and day cases and a total of 115,147 patients were treated in their two emergency departments. They also carried out nearly five million pathology tests.
In 2007, the access control system at the Conquest Hospital failed and could not be recovered. Installation of a new system by the current provider was not a realistic option because of the cost that had been quoted to them. John Kirk the Security Manager for both The Conquest and the DGH in Eastbourne explains: “Security is very important in this sort of environment. Hundreds of people come through the hospital every day.” John decided to investigate installing a Net2 networked access control system from Paxton Access. Net2 Access control.  Click here to download this case study as a PDF
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