BT Conferencing - Keeping you ahead of the game - every
step of the way
Is your face to face meeting really necessary?
For the busy clinician or manager who spends long hours travelling to meetings,
conferencing by phone, video or online can be a highly effective alternative to faceto-face appointments.
More than that, conferencing technology that enables participants to share images,
data and video provides not just an alternative, but a first choice for bringing people
together in many situations.
Put simply, BT Conferencing enables you to discuss and interactively present
information to colleagues or partners anywhere in the world, reducing the
dependency to travel to meetings.
Key Results
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Keep in touch with BT MeetMe - no booking required
PhoneConferencing links people together in the same telephone conversation. It is
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Reduce travel costs, whilst improving
the flow of information through your
organisation
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Organise meetings rapidly
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Decrease CO2 emissions and ease
traffic congestion
possible to connect as few a three people or as many as several hundred. Services
start with BT MeetMe which enables account holders to set up conference calls with
up to 20 people.
No bookings are needed and callers just use an ordinary or mobile phone to call in
Keep people informed, trained and
up-to-date with no time wasted from
travelling
and join the meeting. It is an excellent way for a research team to keep in touch, for
example or for GPs in different locations across a primary care trust to meet up.
For larger meetings, BT offers a pre-booked service. Participants can dial-in or a
co-ordinator from BT can call and introduce them to the meeting. This type of
conference offers the facility to bring people in at different points in the meeting
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We’re simply trying to help
people make the most of their time
and more advanced features include voting facilities operated via the phone keypad.
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Online interpretation and transcription services are also available and this type of
alternatives
phone conference can be recorded on audio cassette so that an archived record is
always available.
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David Sales, Director
BT Conferencing
Global PhoneConferencing enables people from around the world with common
interests to get together: it could be a very good medium for clinicians planning a
conference or for specialists sharing expertise across international boundaries. BT’s
system also includes a facility which helps to minimise international call cost.
Take the next step - with Videoconferencing
VideoConferencing also links people in different locations, but adds the extra
dimension of interactive two-way video. In fact it is just like being at a physical
meeting but without the need to spend time and money travelling. In healthcare
VideoConferencing has many applications.
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In education, lectures and seminars can be networked across multiple sites
helping professionals to share expertise and learn together. In clinical practice, the
technique can enable patients at a community clinic to be seen by a consultant at a
hospital many miles away.
Conferencing - creating a better environment for us all
BT has saved thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere
Focus on Healthcare
Is conferencing technology really
relevant to a modern NHS?
Conferencing not only saves time and
expense for the doctor and the patient,
but can help to avoid a painful journey
for a patient who is injured or unwell.
through internally promoting the use of conferencing as an alternative to travelling
to meetings, according to the results of an FDS International Ltd study.
• CO2 emissions will be reduced by 54,000 tonnes this year alone
• 12 million litres of car fuel will be conserved this year, saving BT an estimated £9.7
We are all aware that certain types of
clinical expertise are in very short supply
and conferencing helps professionals
with scarce expertise to see more
patients and to share their knowledge
with a greater number of colleagues.
million
• Society in general will benefit to the tune of around £3.5 million per year from
reduced impacts associated with travel – such as the effects of noise and air
pollution on our health.
In addition to these environmental benefits, by using conferencing services, BT staff
saved a staggering 1,800 years of time and 220 million miles of travel over the past
year - equal to over 40,000 return trips from London to Birmingham by car or nearly
80,000 return trips from London to Edinburgh by air.
Join the millions already using Conferencing
Conferencing has become a way of life, especially in industries where, like the public
services, deadlines and budgets are tight. With the current economic situation,
people have started to think twice about taking business trips, or attending
Continuing professional development
is a key issue for all healthcare
professionals as knowledge advances
at an ever-faster pace. Conferencing
is an excellent way of building learning
networks and helping clinicians to stay
in touch and share the latest thinking in
their specialty.
Conferencing also helps managers
in the NHS keep in touch - and is
especially useful to staff who are highly
mobile and to those who have to juggle
very busy schedules. The flexibility
of conferencing allows meetings
to be called quickly and important
management decisions to be made
effectively.
meetings out of their local area. In addition, working patterns have changed,
alternatives to the traditional business meeting were sought. Conferencing has
proven itself as the cheaper, faster and more effective alternative, for thousands of
businesses and millions of staff worldwide.
BT - With you every step of the way
BT’s research shows that organisations need support to make conferencing an
integral part of their communication. A wide variety of internal communications
materials are available to educate users and reinforce messages about the
advantages of conferencing including direct mail, aide-memoire cards or modules
for intranet sites, which have been devised to fit flexibly into a range of settings.
They can, for example be customised to display a corporate logo. For larger
organisations, fully tailored programmes are available which may include events
such as open days to explain conferencing to users. Best of all this support is offered
free of charge by BT.
Finally, the government’s
modernisation agenda demands a more
networked NHS, able to communicate
effectively not only between the
different branches of healthcare but
also to provide seamless services for
patients who encounter social services,
schools, housing departments and
many other government agencies.
Conferencing has a part to play in
improving communications within and
outside the healthcare system.
If you would like further information
on any of the issues raised here,
please do not hesitate to call us
free, on 0800 032 0024, email us at
[email protected], or visit our website
at www.conferencing.bt.com.
We will be delighted to help you and
your staff save money and time using
Conferencing.
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