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NowBoard for hospitals
Every screen in the hospital, changed from one phone.
Wayfinding, waiting room updates, visiting hours and health campaigns on the TVs you already have. Emergency alerts on all of them at once.
- Ready-made hospital screens, called Boards, in the trust’s colours
- One alert on every screen at once: fire, missing person, urgent notices
- Start with one department. Enterprise from £30 a TV a month
Welcome. Where to go
What makes NowBoard different
Five reasons NowBoard is different.
Screens that make you money
Local businesses pay to advertise on your screens. You approve every advert and keep most of what they pay.
Run it from your phone
Change any screen in seconds from a phone or tablet, on the ward or at a desk.
Works on the TVs you have
Android TV, Raspberry Pi, or any Windows PC, Mac or Chromebook in a web browser.
Ready-made for hospitals
Boards for wayfinding, waiting rooms, visiting hours and health tips. No designer needed.
AI and your own designs
Describe a Board and AI designs it, or lay out your own. No graphic designer needed.
Ad Space share: you keep 70% on Free, 80% on Starter, 87% on Professional and 92% on Enterprise, before card fees. Prices exclude VAT.
Why NowBoard
Built for hospitals. Run by the teams who know.
A hospital has three other ways to put information on a screen. Here’s how they compare.
| Built for hospitals |
AV company signage on a contractInstalled and run by an AV firm | Other screen appsMade for shops, offices and cafés | PowerPoint and postersWhat many wards use today | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Changed by the ward or the department | ✓From a phoneEach team changes its own screens |
~Often through the AV firm | ~Usually built on a computer | ✗Reprint and re-laminate |
| Every site in one account | ✓One loginEvery hospital, wing and ward |
✓Usually | ~Varies by plan | ✗Each TV done by hand |
| One alert on every screen at once | ✓Built inFire, missing person, urgent notices |
~Varies | ~Varies by plan | ✗ |
| English and Welsh | ✓Both, on every planPlus French and Spanish |
~Varies | ~Varies | ~Two sets of posters |
| Start small | ✓Pilot one departmentMonthly. No long contract |
✗Usually a multi-year contract | ✓Monthly plans | ✓Nothing to sign |
| What it costs | ✓£30 a TV a monthLower prices from 100 TVs, by quote |
~Contract, priced per screen | ~Priced per screen, often in US dollars | ~Printing, and staff time |
A general comparison of types of product. Check with each supplier for their latest features and prices. NowBoard prices exclude VAT.
What’s on the wall now
Your teams keep people informed. The screens don’t help.
Visiting hours, clinic delays and health campaigns end up on paper taped to doors. Sound familiar?
The corridor TV
A PowerPoint someone in comms set up. Changing it means finding them.
The laminated sign
Visiting hours changed. Forty signs across the site still say the old times.
“Where is outpatients?”
The main desk answers the same question hundreds of times a day.
The waiting room
The clinic runs late. Nobody on the screen says so, so people queue at the desk.
Your TVs, each with a job
One screen per room. Each one says what that room needs.
Pick a Board, type in your details, and it’s on the TV. Every Board is ready to use, and you can change any of them.
Where to go
- Wayfinding
- Site map
- Visiting hours
Expected wait
- Waiting times
- Health tips
- Clinic list
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- Ward notices
- Meet the team
Staff news
- Staff board
- Notices
- Campaigns
The screens shown are examples. Waiting times are typed in by staff; NowBoard does not connect to patient systems. Wayfinding is one Board per site.
Scheduling
Plan the week once. The TV follows the day.
Choose when each Board shows, and the main entrance TV changes through the day by itself. Tap a time to see it.
Changing through the day comes with Professional and Enterprise.
Update from anywhere
Clinic running late? Tell the waiting room.
Expected wait: About 20 minutes
No laptop, no printer, no call to the AV firm. Reception, the ward or the comms team can each change their own Boards from a phone, a tablet or a computer. Try it: change the details and press Update the TV.
Made for a hospital
Clear, calm and in Welsh too.
- Large type, strong contrastEvery hospital Board is laid out to be read across a waiting room.
- One thing at a timeNow and Next shows what’s happening and what comes after. Nothing else.
- English and WelshPlus French and Spanish, on every plan.
- The trust’s logo and coloursAdd them once and every Board on every TV uses them.
Emergency alerts
When it matters, every screen at once.
One tap puts the same message on every TV on the site. One more tap puts everything back as it was.
Ready-made alerts for a fire, a fire drill, an urgent notice, building work and a missing person, plus your own messages. They come with Professional and Enterprise.
For patients and visitors
People find their way. The desk gets a break.
Welcome to Wing B
14:00 – 20:00
Wing C, room 4
For NHS trusts
One login. Every site.
Where to go
Riverside
Adds its own wards and clinics
Clinics today
St Anne’s
Adds its own wards and clinics
Visiting 14:00
Hilltop
Adds its own wards and clinics
Getting it on the TV
It works on the TVs you already have.
Any TV with an HDMI socket will do. Each TV needs an internet connection, over Wi-Fi or a cable.
The NowBoard app
Runs on compatible Android TVs and TV sticks, a Windows PC, or in a web browser.
Player Pro
A small box that plugs into the TV’s HDMI socket, starts itself and just plays. Optional.
We can fit it for you
Our installer comes to your site. UK only.
All prices exclude VAT. If we supply a TV, you pay what it costs us. Your IT team can ask us for the network details they need.
Optional · Ad Space
Public areas can earn income for the trust.
Ad Space is off unless you turn it on. You choose which screens show adverts, and you approve every one.
Who might advertise? Services visitors use: taxi firms, local hotels for visiting families, florists, cafés. The trust approves every advert and decides what fits.
An example, not a promise of income: what you earn depends on what you sell. NowBoard takes a share of each advert (Starter 20%, Professional 13%, Enterprise 8%; 30% on Free). Card payment fees come off before you are paid. Prices exclude VAT.
Pricing
Pay per TV. Start free.
Pay monthly with no contract, or pay yearly and get 2 months free. Paid plans have as many Boards as you like and no NowBoard logo.
Free
- One TV
- Up to 5 Boards
- Hospital Boards
- Your logo and colours
- Shows the NowBoard logo
Starter
- As many TVs as you need
- As many Boards as you like
- Something different on each TV
- Every Board design and style
- Design your own Boards
Professional
- Everything in Starter
- Boards that change through the day
- Fire and emergency alerts
- Describe a Board and AI designs it
Enterprise
- Everything in Professional
- For NHS trusts
- Help setting up every site
- A team who knows your group
- Lower prices for large groups
All prices exclude VAT. For example, a pilot of 20 TVs in one department. Lower prices from 100 TVs are by quote.
Next steps
Start with one department this quarter.
Let’s plan your pilot.
We can set it up with you on a call, or come and fit it.
- Start free
- app.nowboard.tv/register
- hello@nowboard.tv
- Website
- nowboard.tv