Technology
Similarly, a number of Trusts are looking to use Oxehealth’s technology to support earlier discharge into step-down facilities. For example, Oxehealth’s smart activity reports on elderly patients can provide the missing information needed for creating step-down care packages, including the evidence needed to achieve earlier discharge.
REDUCING RISK TO STAFF At Oxehealth, the focus is above all on improving patient outcomes, but our technology can help reduce the risks to staff too. Violence and aggression are serious occurrences in mental healthcare facilities. In 2015/16 there were more than 46,000 physical assaults reported against NHS staff in England – most frequently in inpatient psychiatric units.3 They result in staff injury and sickness, and can affect morale on the ward.
Oxehealth technology can play an important
role in keeping staff safe. It is non-contact and non-invasive, giving nurses peace of mind that they can remotely monitor a patient’s physical health when the risk of entering a room is too high – for example, post rapid-tranquilisation. As one healthcare assistant at Broadmoor Hospital put it: ‘Knowing your patient is alive would take a great pressure off.’
EASY TO DEPLOY
Oxehealth has first-hand experience of deploying its hardware and software in both old and new mental health facilities. To contain costs and adhere to strict safety requirements,
MENTAL HEALTH ‘AT CENTRE OF PLANS’ Oxehealth has placed mental health at the centre of its plans to take its revolutionary technology to the world. NHS and private partners are already deploying the system to reduce the risk of deaths and injuries to patients and staff, shorten stay in higher intensity pathways, use staff time more efficiently, and fulfil CQC requirements more fully and at lower cost.
The company was also recently awarded the Colin Campbell Mitchell Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering, Oxehealth’s patient safety products are commercially available today. The remote vital signs probe is expected to be available from early this year, subject to medical device certification. With the first commercial installations in the
Oxehealth says that ‘a number of progressive mental health Trusts are building on Broadmoor’s pioneering work’ with its technology – deploying it as a way to improve patient safety and lower costs.
the team deploys off-the-shelf secure housings, cameras, and infrared illuminators. The software runs on servers that fit into small service cupboards, or ‘virtually’ on existing IT infrastructure. Cabling can run through existing ducts, with minimal disruption for Estates and IT teams.
Oxehealth takes privacy, data security, and patient confidentiality, very seriously. Its protocols fully involve the local Caldicott Guardian and Information Governance team – a process which we have completed successfully in many NHS environments.
ground, and strong demand from the sector, the business is open to all partners who would like to harness its software to support the work of clinicians and carers in improving patient care and staff safety in mental health.
REFERENCES 1 ‘Rise in serious incidents at English mental health trusts’. BBC News online, 26 January, 2016 [
www.tinyurl.com/z2gxw4d].
2 ‘The human cost of falls’. Public Health England ‘blog’, 17 July, 2014 [
www.tinyurl.com/lcbzvqj].
3 Costing statement: Violence and aggression. Implementing the NICE guideline on violence and aggression. (NG10) National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, May 2015 [
www.tinyurl.com/y99dvadq].
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