Salford harnesses robot technology to speed up medicine dispensing
PillTime is a dispensary, featuring a robot and optical checker which has been set up in the global digital exemplars (GDE) pharmacy deparment.
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PillTime is a dispensary, featuring a robot and optical checker which has been set up in the global digital exemplars (GDE) pharmacy deparment.
The clinic also aims to reduce waiting times by ensuring only those who need an appointment are given one in a timely manner.
The project will see RNOH, replace their legacy technology with a newer clinical data platform and allow the trust to embark on an innovation led strategy.
Last November, global digital exemplar Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust went live with a brand new electronic patient record. For Hannah Crouch, a visit to the trust underscores the difference clinician-led digitisation can make – and what it means to be a GDE.
The aim of the deployment was to alert doctors to genuine prescribing dangers and forms part of a wider electronic patient record programme.
NHS chief executive Simon Stevens said the health service had “not been satisfied” with the way Capita had handled the contract.