GS1 Healthcare Reference Book 2020-2021
A collection of the best examples of GS1 standards implementation from healthcare systems around the world
Healthcare case studies
See how GS1 standards are demonstrating success in healthcare by delivering benefits in the UK and globally
GS1 standards are used to provide improved patient safety, greater regulatory compliance and to drive operational efficiencies. Many Trusts and hospitals are already reaping the benefits from using barcodes and RFID. Take a look at these short success stories to find out how.
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust uses GS1 standards
Read how GS1 standards helped University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust manage stock more effectively
GS1 standards to save Barking, Havering & Redbridge University NHS Trust over £1.4m
Find out how they implemented GS1 standards for health records tracking
The integrated supply chain
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust uses GS1 standards to identify patients
Leeds using patient identification to provide real-time information to patient's relatives
FMD: A hospital pharmacy perspective
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Benefits of standards in the Irish National Decontamination Tracking System
St James’s Hospital, Ireland
Purchase to pain: How to break the cycle
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Enabling patient identification for blood transfusion
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Stryker’s GS1 standards adoption journey
Stryker implements GS1 standards for product labelling to comply with the US FDA’s Unique Device Identification (UDI) Final Rule and the NHS eProcurement strategy
Product safety recall – the view from the theatre
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Improving inventory management
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Inventory management
Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Improving patient safety through surgical instrument tracking
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (UHMB) NHS Foundation Trust
Purchase-to-pay – the view from Australia
Hear from GS1 Australia about how they are delivering efficiencies across the Australian health service
Medical equipment management
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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