Rob Kinnersley discusses the benefits of leveraging technology to accurately and efficiently track vital hospital equipment in healthcare environments.
Years of mounting pressures on the NHS have taken their toll, with long waiting times, understaffing, and issues with retention combined with chronic underfunding all having a significant impact. This is a familiar story in the press. The challenge of missing medical equipment across hospital Trusts only adds to the headache as staff spend precious time searching for items daily, and many have to be replaced at a great financial cost
With the support of innovative technology, there is an opportunity to overcome this challenge and empower healthcare staff to locate, manage, and utilise medical equipment more efficiently.
Research from the NHS Transformation Directorate found that hospitals using technology to locate medical equipment reduced the time to find a tagged asset to less than 25 seconds and, as a result, released over 140,000 hours of clinical time back to patient care.
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