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Location: W209C
Type: General Education
Session ID: 245
Title: How One Hospital Increased Efficiency and Improved Care Implementing Scan4Safety
Description: Acknowledging the need to improve patient care and efficiencies, the National Health Service (NHS), UK’s healthcare system, pioneered the Scan4Safety initiative. It provides guidance to deploy the GS1 Standard to uniquely identify every person, every product and every place in a healthcare facility. Results of the initiative showed enhancements to care and safety by improving asset and implant traceability and the real-time location of clinical equipment. The projected cost savings across the NHS are estimated to be over £1 billion over a seven-year period. Hull University Teaching Hospital, which serves close to 1 million patients annually, and covers 1.3 million square feet of clinical space, implemented a Scan4Safety pilot in its ICU to track critical hospital equipment. The pilot was a success, resulting in their ability to make the equipment available quickly for patients without wasting time to locate it. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, they expanded the program across their two main campuses and for all patient-facing departments. The dramatic results showed time savings of 88,000 hours across 2,500 staff members. The delivery of the Hull program was selected by NHS England to be the Global Digital Exemplar for other hospitals across the UK to follow.
Level: Introductory
Format: 60-Minute Lecture
Learning Objective #1: Describe the National Health Service’s GS1 Standard and the Scan4Safety Initiative to improve patient safety and their impressive results experienced across the United Kingdom
Learning Objective #2: Discuss how full traceability across the hospital improved patient safety when a product recall happened
Learning Objective #3: Identify how Hull Trust successfully implemented the Scan4Safety pilot program in their ICU and then expanded the program across two large main campuses resulting in the Trust being awarded "Global Digital Exemplar" status by NHS England serving as an example and reference for others to follow
Learning Objective #4: Recognize how Hull University Teaching Hospital was the first to deliver this program in their ICU, the first to implement scanning capability to scan every item throughout the hospital, and first to scan onto mortuary to complete full patient pathways for clinicians to review at every stage
Learning Objective #5: State how having the ability to quickly locate critical equipment such as a bladder scanner during overnight nursing operations, reduced search time from four hours to seven minutes and improved patient care and outcomes
