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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 [...]

Personal TV service selected as UK Flagship Inclusion project

The STREAM Personal TV has received a significant boost this week with the announcement that the service is one of three UK flagship projects for Inclusive eGovernment.

STREAM will now represent the UK at the European Ministerial eInclusion Conference, 30 November – 2 December 2008 in Vienna.
The project was selected to represent the UK by the [...]

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 [...]

The STREAM Mobile Platform: Update

As mobile phone technology moves on, so have the capabilities of the devices we use on a daily basis. Most handsets on the market can now get emails, access the internet and run & store media rich content, such as video, music and images.

At Broadband Capital, we recognized at an early stage the significant impact [...]

An Occupational Therapist Talks About the STREAM Services

‘Stream will provide an assistant who doesn’t get overloaded, always says the right thing, and is on duty 24/7.’

One of the major issues I have to deal with in my job is that I spend a lot of time giving patients basic, generic information, rather than actually treating them. Therefore, a service that can provide [...]

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 [...]

BCL Joins ActiveAge as a Strategic Partner

Broadband Capital Ltd, on behalf of Hull City Council, has joined the ActiveAge research programme as a strategic partner. ActiveAge is a public-private consortium, led by Aberdeen-based research boutique BusinessLab, which aims to research the key issues of an ageing society and to develop innovative solutions that will improve competitiveness, from a corporate, regional and [...]

Independent Living Campaign – New Interface

This week, Jackie Burnett and Ann Edwards have welcomed some of the users from the Independent Living Campaign to the Broadband Capital offices to provide feedback on the service and the new interface.