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Healthcare
End-to-end product traceability enables safer, more efficient care for Lancashire.
Stock control was heavily reliant on manual processing, and orders and supplies were managed by a li...
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Healthcare
Reducing the global impact of environmentally harmful anaesthetic gases using a medical de...
95% of anaesthetic gases used in an operation are not metabolised by the patient so a significant pr...
Leeds Teaching Hospitals takes huge savings in time and spends it on patient care
Healthcare
Leeds Teaching Hospitals takes huge savings in time and spends it on patient care
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) is one of the largest in England with more than 2,000 beds...
Interoperability and GS1 standards – a roadmap to success in pathology and medicines administration
Healthcare
Interoperability and GS1 standards – a roadmap to success in pathology and medicines admin...
Prior to 2017, pathology at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was a systematic but manual...
Derby Teaching Hospitals save £2.8 million by using GS1 standards in operating theatres
Healthcare
Derby Teaching Hospitals save £2.8 million by using GS1 standards in operating theatres
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust provides both acute hospital and commu...
Connected, continuous and complete: Implementing Scan4Safety using GS1 standards at the core of the patient pathway
Healthcare
Connected, continuous and complete: Implementing Scan4Safety using GS1 standards at the co...
Launched in England by the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care in 2016, the Scan4Safety progra...
CareScan+: Enabling safer more efficient patient care while reducing costs
Healthcare
CareScan+: Enabling safer more efficient patient care while reducing costs
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust began its GS1 standards-adoption journey as one of si...
Realising more than £1m of savings through an effective inventory management improvement programme
Healthcare
Realising more than £1m of savings through an effective inventory management improvement p...
National Health Service (NHS) trusts in England are being driven to improve operational efficiencies...