Electronic Discharge
Michael W Mansfield, Consultant Physician & Diabetologist and Clinical Director of Acute Medicine, Leeds "Clinicians in Leeds have been very positive about eDAN (Electronic Discharge Advice Notice). We know GPs value legible timely discharge information, in particular about changes to patients' medications. eDAN does this and more. In the acute medical unit it allows us to quickly check the status...
Theatre Manager
Debbie Upson, Theatre Manager, Royal Berkshire Hospital. The flexibility and configurability of Bluespier has meant we have easily been able to adapt the system to fit into the working practices of all our theatre suites. Clinicians and theatre staff like the system and find it easy to use and as a result there is a high level of buy-in. We are now able to capture data...
Orthopaedic Trauma Board
Professor Keith Willett, National Clinical Director for Trauma Care, John Radcliffe Hospital,Oxford "We have been using Bluespier at our Trust since 2007. It replaced an in-house database that tracked inpatient admissions, operations and discharges. The changeover to Bluespier was easy and we have been able to expand its use to currently include: 1) Clinical patient management -...
Lean Thinking in action at county hospitals
For Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, lean means improving the patient experience as efficiently as possible without compromising the quality and safety of care. In the current economic climate the NHS, like every other public sector organisation, is being encouraged to maximise its lean thinking even more. The Department of Health's QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention)...