O.R. Efficiency Assessment Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Summary
Introducing ProcedurePak trays into a hospital provides a great number of opportunities to optimise processes and thereby increase efficiency. This analysis shows a selection of the potential improvements for your hospital:
- Time saving: 3,715 hours in the Operating Theatre material management process
- 97% reduction in ordering individual items required
- Waste reduced by 100,200 individual packages
- Waste reduction of 440 kg
There are also several other factors affected by implementing ProcedurePak trays that were not included in this analysis. These are:
- Increased employee satisfaction due to increased focus on core skills or a reduction in overtime
- Errors are minimised because processes are simpler
- Increased quality or further cost reductions due to simplified handling
Reduction in package waste
The reduction of single-packed items leads to a reduction in the waste of packages in the Operating Theatre. An overview of the specific ProcedurePak trays yields the following environmental optimisation potential.
As already mentioned in Chapter 1, the number of individual packages can be reduced by 95%, from 104,800 to 4,600 per year. The remaining 4,600 individual surgical trays cover all single-use items which previously were partly packed individually, a total of 155,100 items.
