Scan4safety project (FOI)

Request 1

1

Has your organisation signed up to the ScanForSafety project?

Scan4Safety

1a

If yes, what hardware and software supplier have you used and who is project managing this internally?

1b

If no, is this something you would be keen to be involved in should other demonstrator sites be announced?

Response 1

1 - No

1a - N/A

1b - Yes

Request 2

2

Has your Trust already enabled a “product to patient” tracking system, to trace what medical items are used with any given identified patient? This includes being able to track medical devices, objects, assets, people and pathways, and to enable the transmission of the right data through the recognition of a unique identifier.

2a

If yes, could you please detail the company you used to achieve this? (both hardware and software provider)

2b

If no, is this something your organisation would be keen to explore within the next 18 months?

2c

If this is something your organisation may consider exploring, who would be the Trust project lead?

2d

If yes, what was the purchase and ongoing cost of this?

Respone 2

2 - No

2a - N/A

2b - Yes

2c - Not assigned

2d - N/A

Request 3

3

Does your Trust already use an electronic inventory management solution to trace the movement of items into and out of the hospital warehouse / supplies department? This could also include the monitoring and movement of blood products, implants, patients’ records and so on.

3a

If yes, could you please detail the company you use to achieve this? (both hardware and  software provider)

3b

If no, is this something your organisation would be keen to explore within the next 18 months?

3c

If this is something your organisation may consider exploring, who would be the Trust project lead?

Response 3

3, 3a to 3c - Further efficiencies in inventory management inform spatial planning for the Future Hospital Project. The specific electronic management solution to trace the movement of items into and out of the hospital has yet to be determined. The Project is still at too early a stage in development for this work to be concluded (outline planning permission submitted April 2018 yet to be determined). The Project Lead is yet to be identified.

Request 4

4

Does your Trust have a solution to trace goods and people flows in their logistic pathways to identify their physical movements through the hospital or provide mobile readings of passive and / or active RFID’s?

4a

If yes, could you please detail the company you use to achieve this? (both hardware and software provider)

4b

If no, is this something your organisation would be keen to explore within the next 18 months?

4c

If this is something your organisation may consider exploring, who would be the Trust project lead?

Response 4

4, 4a to 4c - In relation to the solutions to trace goods and peoples flows in their logistics pathways forms an important part of operational policies being developed for the Future Hospital. The Project Lead is yet to be identified.

Request 5

5

Does your Trust provide an electronic navigation system (an app) to support the patient, their visitors and other caregivers’ check-in at the hospital and assist them with their indoor navigation around the hospital site?

5a

If yes, could you please detail the company you use to achieve this? (both hardware and software provider)

5b

If no, is this something your organisation would be keen to explore within the next 18 months?

5c

If this is something your organisation may consider exploring, who would be the Trust project lead?

Response 5

5 - No

5a - N/A

5b - No

5c - N/A

At this stage electronic navigation systems (an app) to support the patient, their visitors and other caregivers’ indoor navigation around the hospital site have not been explored. In relation to the Future Hospital, such an enhancement to the experience of patients, visitors and their caregivers is something that the organisation would certainly consider as a complementary enhancement to the electronic check in and registration of patients that is contained within the strategic brief. The Project Lead is yet to be identified.

Request 6

6

Do your operating theatres have an electronic stock management system, (which also monitors expiry dates)?

6a

If yes, could you please detail the company you use to achieve this? (both hardware and software provider)

6b

If no, is this something your organisation would be keen to explore within the next 18 months?

6c

If this is something your organisation may consider exploring, who would be the Trust project lead?

Response 6

6 - No

6a - N/A

6b - Yes

6c - Not yet assigned.

In relation to the Future Hospital, further efficiencies in electronic stock management inform spatial planning for the Future Hospital Project. The specific electronic stock management solution has yet to be determined. The Project is still at too early a stage in development for this work to be concluded (outline planning permission submitted April 2018 yet to be determined). The Project Lead is yet to be identified.