Supporting University Hospital Southampton With Their Ambition to Become a Centre of Excellence for Supply Chain Management in Healthcare
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust provides services to some 1.9 million people plus specialist services such as neurosciences, cardiac services and children’s intensive care to more than 3.7 million people. The Trust is also a major centre for teaching and research in association with the University of Southampton.
The Challenge
- To improve patient safety and free up staff time so they can focus on patient care.
- To have full traceability and control of all inventory being used across the Trust.
- Be able to carry out patient level costing for greater visibility of what is being spent, where.
- Carry out work and updates using specialist inventory management software and provide reports and other actionable data to managers.
- To improve patient safety and free up staff time so they can focus on patient care.
- To have full traceability and control of all inventory being used across the Trust.
- Be able to carry out patient level costing for greater visibility of what is being spent, where.
- Carry out work and updates using specialist inventory management software and provide reports and other actionable data to managers.
The Solution
Omnicell Supply Systems
The Trust implemented Omnicell supplies solutions, including automated XT cabinets and Omnicell SupplyX Inventory Management system, in its cardiac, radiology and neuro-theatres. It also will implement them in its new hybrid theatre and general theatres.
Since installing Omnicell supplies solution the Trust has already seen a number of significant benefits including:
- Inventory optimisation – ensuring the right amount of the right stock is on hand in the right areas.
- Patient level costing –giving the Trust greater visibility on how money can be better spent across the hospital.
- An elimination of unnecessary and costly stock wastage – with huge savings realised in the first 6 months alone.
- Better use of staff time –instead of wasting time looking for stock, clinicians and nurses can now focus on patient care.
- Tracking of individual items for patient safety.
Omnicell Supply Systems
The Trust implemented Omnicell supplies solutions, including automated XT cabinets and Omnicell SupplyX Inventory Management system, in its cardiac, radiology and neuro-theatres. It also will implement them in its new hybrid theatre and general theatres.
Since installing Omnicell supplies solution the Trust has already seen a number of significant benefits including:
- Inventory optimisation – ensuring the right amount of the right stock is on hand in the right areas.
- Patient level costing –giving the Trust greater visibility on how money can be better spent across the hospital.
- An elimination of unnecessary and costly stock wastage – with huge savings realised in the first 6 months alone.
- Better use of staff time –instead of wasting time looking for stock, clinicians and nurses can now focus on patient care.
- Tracking of individual items for patient safety.
The Impact
Inventory optimisation, stock control and frees up satff time.
- £600k worth of reduced inventory holding in the first 6 months alone with stock savings ongoing.
- 100% compliance and correct data for patient level costing for all phase one areas of the pilot using Omnicell systems.
- Identified and eliminated all expired stock.
- No wasted staff time running between theatres looking for stock.
- Nurses and clinicians can now focus on patient care.
"The end users of the systems are there to focus on patient care and rightly so. They do not necessarily understand the supply chain element. To bring about real change we hadto understand the culture of the users and we knew we wouldn’t achieve this with just an open system. So we put in a hybrid system of cabinets and Omnicell SupplyX. All patient specific stock goes in the cabinets and all working stock is managed by Omnicell SupplyX. The staff have really embraced it and now they are approaching us with thoughts and ideas. Putting patients first is one of the Trust’s key values -these systems help us to do just that. This system is absolutely the way forward and it’s going to be an increasingly useful tool as we work with Omnicell to roll it out."
Chris Meayers-NorkettHead of Supply at University Hospital Southampton
