HEALTHCARE

    

Better patient care

Caring for patients in the NHS and in private medicine demands effective use of assets and medication if the resources available are not to be outstripped by ever rising demand for services. Automated identification systems, such as RFID, can help by improving control of assets, increasing the efficiency of the supply chain, reducing fraud and theft and increasing patient safety.

    

    

The cost of inefficiency

Studies in the NHS show that with over 8 million admissions a year, there are 850,000 patient bed-days lost each year as a result of safety incidents with a cost to the Health Service of over £2billion, leaving aside the human costs involved.

    

    

What RFID can do

RFID solutions can help to authenticate drugs, identify the location of assets and help in patient identification and administering treatment. A fact sheet on the applications for RFID in the NHS is available.

    

    

Real time tracking of assets and staff

In hospitals, being able to find critical equipment quickly can save lives but, it can also save costs too. When test equipment can be easily found less is required, hire bills are lower. CoreRFID's real time staff and asset tracking system, Pro-Found, pin-points people and equipment using existing technology infrastructures. See fact sheet

    

Standards body GS-1 have established a national agreement for the use of their standards across the NHS. CoreRFID is a GS-1 UK Solution Provider.