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Report July 2020

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140,000 hours

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140,000 hours of clinical time released to care
All Trusts

£5,000,000

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Almost £5m of recurrent inventory savings
All Trusts

£9,000,000

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£9m of non-recurrent inventory reductions
All Trusts
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Patient Safety

By reducing the time spent on tasks and eliminating manual processes, wards are able to release valuable time back to patient care.
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£84,411.07
£84,411.07 per year saved on product recalls
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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£30,000
£30,000 worth of time released to care in two weeks
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
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22,000 hrs
22,000 hrs released to patient care through reduction in adverse drug effects, incident reporting time, & stock takes
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
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1.5 nurses
1.5 cardiac catheterisation lab nurses freed up from stock control work and released to patient care
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
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8 hrs
In orthopaedics, 8 hours/week released to care instead of stock management
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
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35 mins
Product recall times fell from 8.33 days to less than 35 minutes
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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1m 49sec
Completing observations fell one minutes 49 seconds using electronic observations. Equivalent to 20 nurses’ time saved per day.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
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Theatres

Trusts are able to trace, track, and deliver everything from sterilised instruments to surgical screws.
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£83,548.41
£83,548.41 saved from October 2016 to March 2017 by standardising and rationalising items in surgical trays for the five most common procedures
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
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£36
A switch to pre-sterilised screws scanned before use resulted in complete traceability.+50p/item, £36 saved on sterilisation per usage
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
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Pharmacy

GS1 standards help reduce medication errors from prescribing to administration and eliminate wastage.
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76%
Overall prevented error rates reduced by 76 per cent
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
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£264,101
£264,101 saved my reducing pharmacy wastage and recycling
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
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Finance

With budgets top of mind for any trust, GS1 standards implementation helps release cash, eliminate over-ordering, and ultimately invest more in patient care.
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£2,316,336
£2,316,336 of cumulative savings by December 2017
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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£1,300,000
Cumulative savings of £1.3m through cash releasing benefits and cost avoidance
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
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£209,000
£209,000 of savings in the first year
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
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Inventory

Trusts can streamline and simplify the allocation of goods and services across multiple sites at once resulting in clear stock management, faster product recalls, and complete product traceability.
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£3,194,346
Cumulative savings of £3,194,346 by December 2018
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
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£2,000,000
£2,000,000 reduction on the balance sheet through better stock management
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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£1,116,788
£1,116,788 of cumulative savings across two years
North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals NHS Trust
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£1,100,000
£1.1m savings by May 2017 as a result of consumption reduction
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
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£154,939
£154,939 of savings in orthopaedic theatres by July 2017 through better stock management
North Tees and Hartlepool Hospital Trust
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£65,676
£65,676 gained in the first year by reducing the unnecessary stock held in theatres
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
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2hrs
2 hrs pw released from stock management for a band 6 nurse working across 2 catheterisation labs
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust