Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells go digital for bed management – and halve turnaround times
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust implemented a Care Co-ordination Centre last year which has halved the time patients are waiting for beds.
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Somerset Partnership bids farewell to bed management woes with Flow
Somerset Partnership NHS FT is implementing Servelec’s patient management system, Flow, to replace laborious manual processes currently used at the trust.
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Liverpool Heart hospital goes live with Silverlink bed management system
Staff can create a graphical representation of their ward, allocating and moving patients between beds using a “drag and drop” system.
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CQC: Harlow trust must improve info
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust must improve the way information flows around its site, according to a report by the Care Quality Commission, that says the trust is struggling to cope with patient numbers and “requires improvement.”
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Rising star: Angela Partington
A data warehouse system and development analyst at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Angela Partington admits her job is “unsexy” and she can end up talking to her computer. But she still loves it.
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Galway manages beds with Aura
Galway University Hospitals in Ireland is piloting a patient flow system from Aura Healthcare in order to manage winter pressures and bed shortages.
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Powys midwives set up IT wizard
Powys Health Board in Wales is piloting the Myrddin patient administration system for community midwives.
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NI trust does bed management with Aura
Southern Health and Social Care Trust is rolling-out Aura Healthcare’s patient flow system to improve bed management at Craigavon Area Hospital.
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Rising star: Elijah Charles
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has its own IT MacGyver; someone able to create inventions from simple items to solve complex problems. Lis Evenstad talks to him.
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Brighton does bed management
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust’s electronic bed management system has reduced the time taken to log patient transfers and discharges from three days to around eight minutes.
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