One secure network for every clinician, patient and device on your site

Identity-based WiFi for clinical and admin staff, a private key for every connected device, filtered WiFi for patients and visitors, and a sign-in that cuts missed appointments. Run from one dashboard, on the access points you already own.

• Microsoft Entra ID, Okta and Google Workspace sign-in
• xPSK for ward and medical devices
• DNS content filtering for patients
• ISO 27001 certified, UK RADIUS region

A typical hospital today

• A staff WiFi key shared across wards and written on the back of a door
• Leavers, locums and agency staff who can still connect long after their shift pattern ends
• Printers, bedside TVs, sensors and medical kit on one flat network with a single key
• An open patient network with no consent record and no content filtering

With Purple

• Every member of staff signs in with their own directory account, so there is no key to leak
• Access ends the moment an account is disabled, and contractor keys expire on their own
• Each device gets its own key and VLAN, revocable one at a time
• Patients and visitors get a filtered, branded sign-in with a UK GDPR consent trail

One login for email, clinical systems and WiFi

Nurses, doctors, porters and admin teams connect with the account they already use every day. Purple syncs with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace and JumpCloud over SCIM, and group membership decides which VLAN and policy each person gets. Cloud RADIUS runs it, with no on-premise server to patch.

• Joiners, movers and leavers handled automatically from your directory
• Time-limited keys for agency staff, locums and contractors, with no MDM needed
• Trust-managed laptops and tablets get EAP-TLS certificates through Intune or Jamf
• Personal phones onboarded in about 60 seconds with the Purple app

Every session is logged against a named person, device, time and location, which gives you evidence for your Data Security and Protection Toolkit submission.

A private key for everything that cannot sign in

Ward printers, bedside TVs, patient tablets, door controllers, sensors and medical equipment that only supports a pre-shared key cannot use a staff login. xPSK gives each one its own key and its own VLAN, so a leaked key exposes one device, not the whole hospital.

• Revoke a single key without re-keying every device on the ward
• MAC binding ties each key to the first device that uses it
• Works under your vendor’s name: iPSK on Cisco, DPSK on Ruckus, MPSK on HPE Aruba and Juniper Mist, PPSK on Extreme and UniFi
• No per-device licence and no cap on devices per key

St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust moved its hospital charity’s loan iPads onto Purple by letting the devices bypass the sign-in page, saving £12,000 a year on a separate WiFi service.

WiFi that keeps patients connected and your network protected

Patients on long stays and visitors in waiting areas need to reach family, stream and work. Purple gives them a branded sign-in on a segmented guest network, with DNS content filtering that blocks malicious and unsuitable sites before they load. At St George’s Hospital it blocks 241,000 threats a week.

• Captive portal with UK GDPR consent and a full audit trail
• DNS content filtering with Purple Shield, set per network
• Patient and visitor traffic kept off every clinical VLAN
• A Central London NHS trust raised its opt-in rate from 47% to 70% after moving to Purple’s unified accounts

Fewer missed appointments and fewer lost patients in the corridor

Every patient who joins your WiFi has a screen in their hand at the moment they need help. Croydon Health Services uses Purple for wayfinding and missed-appointment prevention, saving 80,000 hours of staff time a year and £1.2m since it went live.

• 58,456 sets of directions issued to patients at Croydon
• Logic Flows show campaigns such as flu jab bookings only to the patients they apply to
• Patient feedback surveys on the sign-in, with responses ready for your patient experience team
• Sign-ups sent to your systems through 400+ data connectors

Homerton University Hospital used a Logic Flow to invite eligible patients and visitors to book their flu jab, and attendance rose 10%, from 5,000 to 5,500.

Results NHS trusts already report

The same platform that secures staff and device access gives back staff time, protects patients online and grows the number of patients you can contact.

Figures from Purple customer results: Croydon Health Services, St George’s Hospital and Central London NHS.

See your hospital on one network platform

Tell us about your sites and we will show you how staff, device, patient and visitor access would work on your hardware.

• Works with Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet
• Single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta and Google Workspace
• ISO 27001 certified, UK GDPR compliant, UK RADIUS region