CAPITAL EQUIPMENT Cont. from previous page
Through leasing, trusts have the additional flexibility to replace equipment that has been rendered obsolete through technological developments which have outpaced the life span of the product.
This enables trusts to access the most up to date equipment on the market.
The capital team provide advice throughout the process and provide trusts with detailed costs comparisons between leasing and purchasing options.
4. Maintenance
The capital team have negotiated a number of national frameworks with key maintenance providers to meet trusts’ requirements.
Through its maintenance deals, some NHS trusts have saved up to £200,000 on £1.2 million spend.
NHS Supply Chain compares the market to achieve the best value from a wide range of suppliers.
5. Disposal Service
The capital team can assist the NHS by offering a fully secure equipment disposal service operated in conjunction with the Ministry of Defence that conforms to all current regulations.
The service reduces the amount of management time the NHS needs to dedicate to waste disposal.
The service also endeavours to return a value back to the trusts which will allow them to reinvest money in frontline services.
Win-win: why leasing benefits both the NHS and business
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s the prospect of public sector cutbacks sends ripples of concern
throughout the country raising fears of job losses, top-up healthcare plans and extended waiting times, NHS trusts are focussing more and more on efficiencies.
In the health sector, spending freezes need to be carefully managed as decisions on where to delay investment can have life or death consequences for some patients.
For the NHS to provide the millions of British citizens it serves with the best possible levels of care requires access to the most up-to-date medical equipment available.
That means that if hospitals had to keep old equipment longer than necessary, patients would ultimately lose out.
It is with this in mind that the health service set up a framework to provide trusts with the opportunity to lease their essential medical equipment from the private sector – a positive step towards meeting savings targets (of £1bn in the next ten years) while maintaining levels of patient care.
This is particularly pertinent to the medical sector where technical advances often outpace the lifespan of equipment,
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creating a dilemma – how do trusts justify getting rid of kit that is still in good working order to upgrade it?
And how, during lean economic times, do they afford the major capital outlays required to finance these upgrades?
The answer is to let the private sector own the equipment, lease it on favourable terms (so that the NHS is never paying more than the cost of the equipment) and refresh technology on new leases as necessary.
The savings are clear. When you analyse the total cost of owning equipment, it generally amounts to more than the price tag, particularly in light of factors such as storing unused equipment, costly upgrades, additional support costs and safe and compliant disposal procedures.
A further, but significant benefit of the leasing option is that the burden of removing and disposing of old equipment falls on the lessor.
This means that trusts can rest assured that this process will be quick and compliant with environmental disposal directives.
For this national problem, leasing clearly offers a win-win solution.
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As the drive to implement computer generated wristbands, barcodes and now GS1uk 2D barcodes has gained momentum, the trust turned again to Positive Healthcare to find the right printer and media for their environment.
Over 1,200 printers are now producing wristbands covering 14 different media types from special baby C care through to red allergy adult bands over thermal and laser technology supporting verifiable GS1 uk 2D barcodes without the need for additional hardware or fonts.
Importantly, one of the key benefits to the trust was the ease with which they could modify layouts, fonts, graphics and barcodes without costly software changes.
This meant that in one fell swoop they were able to modernise both how they printed labels and also wristbands.
With the ability to send e-mails and attach documents, a whole host of process streamlining is open to the trust from NN4B labels, GP letters, finance statements and free SMS texts via NHS Mail and more.
“At last we have a solution that is compatible with all of our systems, old and new, and which has a modern, common user interface for a specific range of tasks,” says head of IT development services Steve Edwards.
“We have been released from the tyranny of vendor hardware printer drivers forever!”
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