Gloucestershire adopts MSoft’s blood tracking

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has implemented MSoft’s blood tracking solution to provide tracking and accountability for all transfusions.

The first phase of the project, code named ‘Bloodhound’ by the trust, has already gone live in the haematology and oncology units serving both Cheltenham General and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The system interfaces with the trust’s existing pathology system.

This allows the trust to track units of blood, platelets and plasma from the blood bank to dedicated kiosk controlled fridges. PIN numbers and user names are then needed to release stock for clinical use and provide accountability and an audit trail.

The trust plans to further extend the new system to enable it to track blood usage not only within its two main hospitals but also across the local network of six primary care trust hospitals in the region.

Stephan Bates, haematology and blood transfusion department manager, who led the trust’s procurement team, said "For a trust of our size this is a huge undertaking so we had to be absolutely rigorous in our selection process and MSoft was not only best placed to meet our current needs but gave us the potential to meet future needs, such as bedside monitoring of transfusions on the ward."

“We have been really impressed to date with the speed of implementation and attention to detail,” Bates added. “MSoft has given us every support in delivering our objectives and empowering the team behind our ‘Bloodhound’ project.”

“To date this is a great success for us and an important validation of our blood tracking capabilities,” comments Martin Blake sales director for MSoft. He said the system met the needs of NHS trusts for blood tracking systems that meet current legislative requirements and provide "a centralised resource which extends to multiple sites all the way through to patients’ bedsides on the wards.”

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