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siemens.com/automation-leader Answers for life. Good News: You’re automating your lab. Best News: We’ve done it 1295 times. The challenges of automating a laboratory, whether for the first time or the third, can be formidable. So having a partner with extensive experience can be the key to achieving your goals. Perhaps that’s why more laboratories around the world rely on Siemens for total laboratory automation than any other company. How does Siemens do something so complex so well? We bring expertise to every phase of your project. For example, our Lean Healthcare-accredited workflow consultants can apply best practices and leverage Siemens’ proprietary database of rules to streamline operations. Our teams are equipped with time-tested analytical tools to set achievable benchmarks for throughput, TAT, staffing, and resource utilization. And by performing periodic, data-driven evaluations, we can help you continually improve productivity throughout years of partnership. Siemens is the only single-source provider able to connect all four key laboratory disciplines—chemistry, immunoassay, hematology, and hemostasis—to the automation track. Working with one vendor can help reduce interoperability issues to ensure a more integrated and efficient overall solution. Laboratory automation can be complex, but having completed more than 1295 track-based automation projects, we can put your mind at ease and help you achieve your goals. And that is very good news indeed. Get more good news at siemens.com/automation-leader. Siemens has the most experience turning complexity into efficiency. A91DX-9426-A1-4A00.©2015SiemensHealthcareDiagnosticsInc.Allrightsreserved. 9426-A1_Automation Leadership Ad1_210x297_QR.indd 1 6/12/15 2:58 PM www.healthcare-in-europe.com 3NEWS & MANAGEMENT The firm’s report found that, of the 152 FTs (around two-thirds of trusts in England), half ended the year in deficit, with 70% of them acute trusts. In addition, the waiting list for operations at FTs grew by 8.3% to nearly 1.8 million. Dr David Bennett, Monitor’s chief executive, observed: ‘The last finan- cial year was exceptionally challeng- ing for the Foundation Trust sector, and it’s clear the current one is fol- lowing the same pattern… The sec- tor can no longer afford to operate on a business as usual basis, and we all need to redouble our efforts to deliver substantial efficiency gains in order to ensure patients get the services they need.’ Whilst that could lead to changes at some hospitals, Monitor believes this can be carried out ‘without com- promising patient care’. Amongst concerned reaction to the deficit from analysts and organi- sations across the health sector, Richard Murray, director of policy at The King’s Fund think tank, said the fact that deficits had occurred despite extra money being provided by the government was disappoint- ing. ‘Plugging the growing black hole in NHS finances must now be an urgent priority for the govern- ment,’ he added. NHS Providers’ CEO Chris Hopson said: ‘Despite providers’ best efforts, accident and emergency, referral to treatment, diagnostic wait and a range of other targets have also been missed, representing a rapid and widespread deterioration in NHS performance and finances.’ BMA council chair Dr Mark Porter expressed extreme concern regard- ing the extent of the dire financial pressure many hospitals are under. ‘The prices paid to hospitals for work done are being cut year on year to drive “efficiency savings”, but the effect is that hospitals are being pushed into deficit. This is no way to run a health service …’ On behalf of the BMA, he added: ‘We call on government to move away from the current approach to one of investment in health.’ Rob Webster, CEO of the NHS Confederation (representing some 500 organisations that commission and provide NHS services) said the report provided a clear indication of the pressures faced by the NHS but welcomed the Prime Minister’s com- mitment to find at least €11bn extra investment in the NHS by 2019-20 following the debate around the health service during the general election. However, he stressed: ‘We now need to change the way care is delivered in many parts of the NHS, with new models of care, backed by strong support from national bodies and politicians. This looks within our grasp if we align behind the Five Year Forward View, secure sufficient funding and back the NHS to deliver.’ UK hospitals face funding black hole ata g the use of nurses abelling to a war. Marienfeld explains: ‘The existing patient label is scanned with the Code Scanner and after transfer of the data sets that have been read out they are sent to the Armilla TTP printer via a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth adapt- er. This prints the new patient wrist- band quickly and easily, without any user intervention.’ For sample and medication labels a patient’s ID can be scanned directly from his/her wristband, e.g. during a ward round, and used for laboratory requests or prescriptions. After specifying the desired number of labels, additional personalised patient labels are then printed on the TSC Primas 300 Healthcare printer. Marienfeld says another applica- tion involves scanning the patient ID directly from the patient’s wristband, transferring the stored core data set to the PraxiKett Designer medication software and printing the person- alised medication label. After cor- responding medications have been identified, the medication is again matched by Cross-Check with the patient ID on the his/her wrist- band. ‘This reliably avoids incorrect administration. Bedside scanning applications such as these operate without complex integration into existing IT infrastructures, therefore they promise direct benefit quickly,’ the firm adds. Mark Porter MD, BMA council chairman Rob Webster, CEO of the NHS Confederation 9426-A1_Automation Leadership Ad1_210x297_QR.indd 16/12/152:58 PM

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