Improving Nursing Efficiency and Patient Care
Case Study - Large scale installation of intelligent medicine cabinets leads to better patient care and lower costs
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Equipment
ADC XT Series
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Department
Accident & Emergency, 100 wards across 2 hospitals
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Site
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Context
An intelligent Omnicell cabinet system for automating the ordering and control of medicines has been installed across 100 wards at St Thomas’ Hospital and Guy’s Hospital. The system is integrated with their electronic health record system, EPIC.
Challenges
- Reduce nurses time preparing and dispensing pharmacy medicines, releasing more time for patients.
- Increase patient safety with a full audit trail for each medicine administered
- Improve the discharge process from wards with increased availability of medicines
- Reduce stock discrepancies with greater accountability
Benefits
Improved safety
Better medicines administration recording, increased medicines availability and quicker discharge times from the wards.
More time spent with patients
More efficient workflows speeding up medicine dispensing and eliminating the need for top-ups.
Reduced costs and waste
A reduction in overall medicine spend with part-packs returned to the cabinets rather than disposed of, and a reduction in excess stock holding.
A fully automated cabinet that provides end users with instant information and access to stock medication twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Orders are automated and delivered by pharmacy staff to cater for the individual ward requirements and needs. Stock is checked weekly to monitor levels and usage.
Improved Safety Delivered
The Omnicell solution delivered improved safety with better medicines administration recording and increased medicines availability. More time is spent with patients with more efficient workflows, speeding up medicine dispensing and eliminating the need for top-ups.
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Enhancing Patient Safety, Boosting Staff Efficiency, and Reducing Costs
Fewer Medication Errors
Auditable recording of medicine administration, more availability of medications, and accelerated discharge times from the wards
More Productive Teams
Enhanced processes accelerated medicine dispensing and eliminated the need for regular medication supplies top ups
Reduction in Medicine Spend
A decrease in total medicine expenses by returning partially used packs to the cabinets instead of discarding them, along with a reduction in stock inventory
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