Safe Surgery System in action: Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
Continuous development in the clinical setting of Heartlands Hospital has enabled Safe Surgery System to prove itself as a robust, practical solution to real-world ward and theatre challenges.
- Patient throughput improved by 12-24%*.
- 4 near misses avoided in Surgical Directorates using the Safe Surgery System.
- Patients asking to be referred to ‘the Hospital using the tagged wristbands’.
- Return on Investment – within 12 months.
- Trust convinced of the case to roll out.
- Used as beacon site to launch DoH ‘Coding for Success’ report.
*12% overall increase in cases per session and 24% increase in cases per session for the top five consultants (ENT Performance Comparison before and after go-live of Safe Surgery System in March 2007).