GS1 UK Local Healthcare User Group Formed

Following the Department of Health’s selection of GS1 Standards as the sole system of coding standards in healthcare, GS1 UK has announced the formation of the GS1 UK Local Healthcare User Group. Comprised of senior stakeholders from across the healthcare community, the Local Group will be led by Chair, Janice Kite, UK eBusiness Manager at Johnson & Johnson Medical Ltd.

Patient safety is top of the agenda and the group plans to lead the UK healthcare community in the development, adoption and effective use of global automatic identification standards designed to improve patient safety.

“Accurate identification of people, places and things is paramount in the drive to improve the level of safety in the UK healthcare system,” said Ms Kite. “By creating a Local Healthcare User Group, we are bringing together all aspects of the healthcare community and its suppliers in promoting GS1 standards, which will ultimately help ensure patient safety.”

“The vision is to seek input from and provide resources to UK healthcare manufactures, wholesalers, hospitals and pharmacies on the direction of global standards in the healthcare community,” said Gary Lynch chief executive of GS1 UK. “The organisation will help to promote global standards to improve patient safety.”

About GS1 Global Healthcare User Group

The objective of the GS1 Global Healthcare User Group is to lead the utilisation and development of global standards for the healthcare industry, with the primary focus on automatic product identification to improve patient safety.

The Group is developing, promoting and implementing a global industry response for solutions in preventing medical errors, combating counterfeits and improving supply chain efficiencies throughout the healthcare industry.

About GS1 UK

GS1 UK has driven innovation in the supply chain for over thirty years. It is part of the global GS1 organisation, dedicated to the development and implementation of global data standards and solutions for the supply chain. GS1 standards are the most widely used in the world. GS1 UK helps industry to implement these data standards through the use of bar codes, RFID, Global Data Synchronisation (GDS) and electronic business messaging.
www.gs1uk.org

For more information please see at www.gs1.org/healthcare and www.gs1uk.org/solutions/health/healthcare.asp

For more information contact:

Lisa Henshaw or Kirsty Sewter
Fourth Day PR
+44 (0)20 7403 4411

Suraya Adnan-Ariffin
GS1 UK
+44 (0)20 7092 3575

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