Don't make me laugh; a PFI company putting something back in to the NHS.

Lee

Only if there's a quid pro quo.

Hinchingbrooke
Hospital size 340 beds
Library Staff 3
Library staff deliver and collect equipment
Clean and disinfect Yes

Equipment
Infusion Pump 79
Mains Syringe Drivers 45
Battery Syringe Drivers 22
Pressure Relief Mattresses 36
Feed Pumps 26
Humidifiers 5
Bair Huggers 2
Fluid Warmer 1
Portable Suction 3
Cardiac Monitors with Invasive Monitoring option 2

Abi

Hello Abi

How do you manage with 36 Pressure mattresses?

Hereford is a similar size Rural Trust etc and we struggle with twice as many.

Lee

Queen Alexandra, Portsmouth
Hospital size 1000+ beds
Library Staff 2
Library staff deliver and collect equipment
Clean and disinfect No

Equipment
Infusion Pump 400+
Mains Syringe Drivers 200+
Battery Syringe Drivers 20+
Pressure Relief Mattresses 300+
Feed Pumps 100+
Nebulisers 50

These are approximate figures, main problem is getting wards to return equipment mainly mattresses.

Stef

What happens out of hours. Do the wards have access.

We are lucky enough to be in a new build, all doors are acces controlled by swipecard.
Out of hours the nurses have swipe card access to MEL. They log what they take on a sheet and the MEL staff update the loan database when they next come in.
Seems to work ok for us.

At the present time we are running a RFID trial with the Library Equipment. Soon it will be able to be logged to the patient notes.
Each infusion pump has a RFID tag located on the device which just needs to be swiped over a black pad which is located in each ward for it to show where the device is on my system.

as per KM with regards to out of hours

When they fill in the sheet that is!!!!!!