In an increasingly litigious environment, the NHS is looking hard at its asset estate and working to improve its planned proactive and reactive maintenance activity to minimise risk.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust has invested in Real Asset Management’s fixed asset register to create a single asset view across its finance, medical electronics ,and estates departments.
This consolidated source of asset information, that includes in-depth maintenance history and highly-effective maintenance management, is enabling the Trust to improve its asset management and efficiently allocate resources to the highest priority devices through automated Adjusted Equipment Management Ratings. In addition, in-depth analysis into the total cost of ownership is enabling the Trust to optimise asset value.
Critically, the Trust has passed its most recent NHS Litigation Authority audit and has streamlined its asset management processes – from capital asset reconciliation to the use of mobile maintenance – to significantly reduce its manual overhead and deliver ‘a quantifiable return on investment’.
Winstone Gondwe, of Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Within 12 to 18 months Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust’s asset management system will be completely paperless. There will be no need to transfer paper-based information between the Estates and Medical Electronics departments and Finance; while the use of mobile maintenance will remove all paper-based job work orders.”
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