Lorna Wilkinson, Director of Nursing, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

1. Lorna Wilkinson, Director of Nursing, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Scan4Safety – our journey so far
12 April 2016

2. Patient-Centred & Safe FriendlyProfessional Responsive
An outstanding experience
for every patient
Scan4Safety – our journey so far
Lorna Wilkinson, Director of Nursing,
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

3. Patient-Centred & Safe FriendlyProfessional Responsive
Demonstrator site
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Delighted to be selected as one
of six sites as a Scan4Safety
demonstrator site.

4. Patient-Centred & Safe FriendlyProfessional Responsive
Our services
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Surgery
Maternity &
Childrens
Services
Diagnostics
Medicine
Emergency
Department
Burns &
Plastic
Surgery
Genetics
Spinal Injuries
Cleft Lip
& Palate

5. Patient-Centred & Safe FriendlyProfessional Responsive
• Our vision ‘An outstanding experience for every patient’
• A single site trust with a track record as an early adopter
• Part of the 32 Lord Carter Trusts
• Implementation of new Electronic Patient Record system
already underway
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Why we were selected

6. Patient-Centred & Safe FriendlyProfessional Responsive
What does Scan4Safety mean to us?
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Operational
efficiency
•Less time spent locating items
•Improved stock management will free up
valuable space
•Stock automatically replenished
•Patient level costings
Patient
safety
•Products recalled safely
•Positive patient identification,
reducing medication errors
Patient
experience
•Clinical staff more time to focus
on patient care

7. Patient-Centred & Safe FriendlyProfessional Responsive
What does Scan4Safety mean to me?
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‘More than a third of
nurses waste two hours a
shift looking for supplies’
Nursing Times
‘Some days it feels like I spend
all day looking for things’

8. Patient-Centred & Safe FriendlyProfessional Responsive
• Automation in product recall – reducing onerous manual
processes
– Implants
– Bloodborne viruses
• Clear audit trails, traceability
– Protecting staff and patients
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What does Scan4Safety mean to me?

9. Patient-Centred & Safe FriendlyProfessional Responsive
Patients at the centre
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Patients are at the heart
of everything we do.
This is not just a
procurement/finance programme,
this is about patient safety and
experience.

10. Patient-Centred & Safe FriendlyProfessional Responsive
ü Bottom-up approach
ü Senior management support
ü Leveraging existing projects
ü Not a major system change, but huge
behavioural change
ü Collaborative approach - identifying where
barcoding will add the most value
ü Building internal capability - sustainable
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Our approach

11. Patient-Centred & Safe FriendlyProfessional Responsive
An outstanding experience
for every patient
Scan4Safety = Better patient safety,
operational efficiency and patient experience
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Thank you