As a new financial year dawns, Joel Haspel, Chief Executive Officer of Sentient Health explains why money worries are very much on the minds of NHS managers.
Sentient Health is offering NHS trusts the chance to identify and make immediate savings and improve their efficiency by launching an ′Evidence Based Savings’ assessment (EBSa) to enable trusts to identify which clinical supplies are overstocked, under-stocked and out of date.
Catheter Laboratories at Frenchay Hospital and the Avon Orthopedic Centre at Southmead Hospital, both part of North Bristol NHS Trust, are amongst the first hospitals to implement Sentient Health’s MedTrac Charge to Patient product to improve the visibility and traceability of its medical supplies.
Joel Haspel, Chief Executive Officer, Sentient Health, looks at the issues relating to poor stock control and the significant impact it can have on patient safety and cancelled procedures.
Joel Haspel, Chief Executive Officer of Sentient Health is warning that other NHS Trusts should take heed from the findings of a recent (leaked) report that indicated a cash crisis at South London Healthcare Trust left patients lying on the operating table before doctors realised vital equipment had not been ordered.
Sentient Health is planning to extend its reach across the UK healthcare market by helping more NHS Trusts and other healthcare providers to tackle Government policy initiatives such as the Department of Health's quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) agenda and the Operational Efficiency Programme (which has set 20 percent savings targets).
