Healthcare

Yes. Healthcare sites with public access areas or high footfall fall under Martyn’s Law regulations, many within the advanced tier. This includes hospitals, large GP practices, private healthcare organisations and urgent A&E care centres, all of which require sophisticated communication and security planning in the event of a terror related incident.

Balancing patient safety with operational sensitivity is key. Systems must communicate efficiently without causing alarm or disrupting clinical care, requiring carefully zoned alert and messaging technology. 

Audio-visual integration enables subtle yet powerful alert mechanisms. Visual signage can guide patients calmly, while zonal control allows targeted messaging to staff or the public, ensuring clarity without chaos. In large and densely populated healthcare environments, the ability to lockdown specific areas or ensuring you direct people in the safest direction and not towards the danger zones is crucial to saving as many lives as possible in critical situations. 

Regularly trained emergency procedures, clear lines of command, and well-practised drills create a consistent response framework across departments and facilities. This allows prepeared and coordinated resposes from staff in the event of a incident alert.

Non-compliance can result in regulatory penalties and public scrutiny. More importantly, it risks the safety of vulnerable patients, undermining trust in healthcare institutions that are meant to protect them. Depending on the tier your healthcare organisation falls into could result in signifcant financial and legal consequences with up to £10,000 for standard tier premises and up to £18 million or 5% of worldwide revenue for enhanced tier premises.