About BCL

Broadband Capital Limited develops and delivers transformational and inclusive public services using new technologies.

Our strategy is to focus on the needs of the most expensive groups and to build compelling services that benefit individuals, reduce costs for service providers and realise policy outcomes for Government.

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STREAM Safe and Sound in the News

STREAM has been in the national news again, this time in the Daily Mail which has run a feature on STREAM Safe and Sound.

STREAM Safe and Sound is the next major enhancement of STREAM Personal TV which integrates a set of lifestyle sensors around the home. The service allows relatives, carers and service providers to [...]

Public Service Transformation

Steve Fleming

Steve Fleming, Chair of the Digital 20/20 Public Sector Special Interest Group, looks at technology’s role within public service transformation, and the significant economic opportunity it presents for the Yorkshire and Humber region.

‘Technology shouldn’t just automate existing processes, it should change them.’ There are two sets of things to consider when looking at [...]

STREAM Mobile Wind BT eHealth Award

STREAM’s mobile service for NHS Choices received its second award of the year tonight when the NHS Choices Humber team picked a BT eHealth Insider Award for best use of ICT in patient and citizen engagement.

The NHS Choices Sexual Health Initiative gave young people in Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, and North and North [...]

Mobile Phone Pilot Nominated for eHealth Award

NHS Choices and Hull Primary Care Trust have been nominated for a BT E-Health Insider Award for the sexual health pilot undertaken earlier this year. The Awards are dedicated to highlighting and rewarding the hard work and bright ideas of information and communications technology professionals in UK healthcare. The project has been shortlisted in the [...]

Government Minister Declares Stream Project “brilliant”

In April this year, Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson, visited our offices in Hull to take a look at the Stream IPTV service. He was very impressed, and promised to talk to Ivan Lewis, Minister for Social Care, about the project, with a recommendation that he also pay us a visit. And so [...]

Ann Edwards Joins the BCL Team

We’re delighted to welcome Ann Edwards to the Broadband Capital team. Ann is an Occupational Therapist with many years’ experience working with vulnerable older people and networking with health and care partners.

Ann’s role is to work with users and service providers to understand the key information and transactions required from the system, and to gather [...]

Mobile Service Wins Award

The NHS Choices mobile phone pilot has tonight won an award at the Hull and East Riding Primary Care Trusts’ Service Improvement Day. The service came top in the Innovative Information and Communications Technology section. The award was presented by Alan Johnson.

It’s fantastic that the service has gained this recognition. Thanks must go to Matt [...]

Independent Living Campaign Update

The Independent Living pilot IPTV project (ILC) has been in operation for almost a month now, and in that time a lot has happened. We seem to be building a rapidly expanding network of content providers from a widening range of public sector agencies, as well our project partners and interested parties at local, regional [...]

Independent Living Campaign goes before Hull PCT Board

Steve Fleming and I presented the city’s Telehealth Programme and the STREAM Independent Living project to the Primary Care Trust board and Professional Executive Committee (PEC). There was a lot of interest and questions from the floor at the end of the twenty minutes or so. The Chair has suggested follow up discussions with CityCare, [...]