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2nd January 2008
First JAC pharmacy system delivered through Fujitsu cuts costs at Milton Keynes General Hospital
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is achieving financial benefits with the implementation of JAC's pharmacy stock control system as part of the NHS's IT modernisation drive.
The system is the first of its kind to be delivered to a trust in partnership with Fujitsu Services and is integrated with the Trust's Fujitsu-supplied Cerner Patient Administration System (PAS).
The central pharmacy at Milton Keynes hospital processes an average of 20,000 transactions a month and serves over 20 acute locations throughout the Trust as well as a community hospital and a broad community of smaller healthcare providers (e.g. dental).
The Trust is benefitting most from the detailed and flexible reporting functionality, which is helping them uncover valuable information within the transaction records, of which 75% are from dispensing, it collects each month.
 By analyzing customised transaction reports, right down to individual consultant level, in conjunction with ward stock audits by technicians, the Trust is able to monitor for duplicate stock orders as well as for older stock being left unused, which has the potential to expire.
Additionally, the system has also allowed much smoother processing of financial reporting. Custom drug cost reporting (e.g. by speciality, Category Z exemptions etc) as required by Foundation Trusts on a daily basis can be provided with ease.
Further benefits will be forthcoming as a project to interface to the Trust's EDI ordering and invoicing system is imminent; expectations are that 70% of suppliers will be supported on the system within the next quarter.
The success of the Milton Keynes implementation coupled with Winchester's implementation of JAC's ePrescribing & Medicines Administration (EPMA) system, linked to their PAS, means that Trusts now have a proven one-stop option for a fully integrated, trust-wide medicines management system.
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