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Patient safety and quality improvement

Products and services that:

  • Increase the quality and safety of clinical services, improves patient experience and outcomes, reduces serious incidents and side effects
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Protetanus

By Prospect Diagnostics Ltd Protetanus testing significantly reduces the number of unnecessary tetanus boosters and immunoglobulin injections.  Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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Haemoglobin point of care analyser

By Prospect Diagnostics Ltd Easy to useUser friendly features minimise training timeStep by step instructions on screenBacklit touch screenSoft-load cuvette holder Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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Neuroptics Pupillometer

By Prospect Diagnostics Ltd Assessment of pupillary function and reactivity is a fundamental component of neurological examination in most intensive care settings. Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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Silhouette Solution - Digital Wound Assessment

By Entec Health The Silhouette® digital wound assessment and information management solution is designed for objective clinical management of patients with wounds. The... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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The Wound Care Buddy App

By Entec Health The Wound Care Buddy App supports best practice and formulary compliance for wound care services. The Wound Care Buddy App enables healthcare... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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HeartFlow: An NHS Innovation Technology Payment (ITP)

By Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber HeartFlow is a physiology simulation solution used to create a personalised, digital 3D model of the patient’s coronary arteries to simulate blood flow... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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Ethicon Plus Antibacterial Sutures: An NHS Innovation Technology Payment (ITP)

By Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber Ethicon Plus Antibacterial Sutures are a new type of surgical suture that reduces the rate of Surgical Site Infection (SSI), such as MRSA, through the use... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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SecurAcath: An NHS Innovation Technology Payment (ITP)

By Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber SecurAcath is a device to secure catheters that is associated with a low incidence of catheter-associated complications, improved stability and reduced... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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Objective Diagnosis of Parkinson's

By ClearSky Medical Diagnostics Limited Diagnosis of Parkinson’s can be difficult to confirm by conventional clinical assessment alone. It is estimated that clinical mis-diagnosis rates of... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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Endocuff Vision: An NHS Innovation Technology Payment (ITP)

By Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber Endocuff Vision is a distal device that fits onto the end of a colonoscope, providing increased flexibility and stability during a colonoscopy procedure.... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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Dip.io

By Healthy.io Healthy.io is the first company to have created a clinical grade diganostic device from the smart-phone camera. Dip.io is a digital urinalysis test that can be... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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Monitoring side-effects of medication for Parkinson’s

By ClearSky Medical Diagnostics Limited Two people out of every 1,000 will suffer from Parkinson’s Disease which equates to about 127,000 people in the UK & over 4 million people globally. Many... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
Under evaluation with potential for adoption

Read by QxMD, Institutional Edition

By QxMD QxMD is a company dedicated to creating point-of-care applications created by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals, with a community of 1.9... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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Patient Portal: Digital Patient Letters

By Healthcare Communications Patients can receive digital appointment letters straight to their smartphone, FeaturesAccessible from multiple devices – Smartphone, tablet and... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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North Region Respiratory Programme: coordinated and rapid response to deteriorating patients - Stafford case study

By NHS England Multi-disciplinary hospital at home and assisted discharge schemes are safe and effective and an alternative to admission for certain patients Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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North Region Respiratory Programme: flu and pneumoccocal vaccination

By NHS England Vaccination is a cost- effective intervention but uptake rates have typically been lower for flu amongst people under 65 with COPD. Programmes to target people... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
Under evaluation with potential for adoption

Patient Care Packs

By Personal Care Packs Ltd Patients are often admitted to hospital at short notice. This means that some come ill equipped for their stay. Evidence indicates that nurses spend more than... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
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PReCePT: Reducing cerebral palsy through improving uptake of magnesium sulphate in preterm deliveries

By South West AHSN At a cost of £1 per dose of magnesium sulphate to mothers in preterm labour, the PReCePT initiative has prevented seven cases of cerebral palsy in the West of... Last updated 23rd July, 2019
Under evaluation with potential for adoption

SEND- A system for vital sign observation for hospital patients

By Drayson Technologies SEND is a system for vital-sign observations in hospital patients (blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, oxygen saturation and temperature) and risk... Last updated 23rd July, 2019

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