The Lean Approach; a way to best practice?
Alan Dutta-Plummer is a senior project consultant with JAC. He has just spent three years at Milton Keynes NHS Trust where he helped to introduce the Lean Approach with the aim of cutting waste and making savings, as well as safeguarding patient safety.
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Hospital e-prescribing - case studies from our customers
Across the UK, hospital services are embracing E-Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) for in-patients, out-patient and discharge prescribing in Adult, Child and Mental healthcare settings delivering safe and efficient medicines management on the wards, in the pharmacy and at the bedside.
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Changing trends in medicines distribution
Many of the NHS's standard processes for distributing and storing medicines at the near patient level were initially developed in the seventies and many of these processes remain unchanged and in place to-day.
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ReportPlus: rapid access to medicines information
There is an inevitability that the requirements for cost management in NHS Hospital Trusts and providing information to Primary Care Organisations (and other external organisations e.g. Healthcare at home) will increase for pharmacy over the coming years.
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