Digital Dictation

Reference: 23-24495

Date response sent: 26/02/2024

Details of enquiry

1. Could you please confirm whether your organisation uses a digital dictation provider? If so, kindly specify the name of the provider.
2. Could you confirm whether you employ a speech recognition system? If yes, please provide details about the provider.
3. Does your organisation use an outsourced transcription provider? If so, kindly state the name of the provider.
4. For all the services mentioned above, I would appreciate clarification on the contract expiration date. Alternatively, if your contracts are on a rolling basis, please indicate so.

Response sent

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist mental health Trust, and not a hospital.

We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological, services.  We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, and do not have an  A&E department.

1. Could you please confirm whether your organisation uses a digital dictation provider? If so, kindly specify the name of the provider.

We currently purchase digital dictation equipment from Freedom of Speech.

2. Could you confirm whether you employ a speech recognition system? If yes, please provide details about the provider.

We currently purchase speech recognition software from Freedom of Speech.

3. Does your organisation use an outsourced transcription provider? If so, kindly state the name of the provider.

No

4. For all the services mentioned above, I would appreciate clarification on the contract expiration date. Alternatively, if your contracts are on a rolling basis, please indicate so.

We have not entered into a contract for the purchase of digital dictation equipment nor speech recognition software and our purchases are made on an as needs basis as one-off purchases.

Please note that only a few of our departments use digital dictation and/or speech recognition software