An award for an outstanding innovation in healthcare – the Limpet Drug Trolley Alarm – has been presented to a team of NHS staff at an event organised by Health Enterprise East.
Winners of the Kiss Communications Award for Software/ICT/Assistive Technology, presented at the 2014 Innovation Awards in Cambridge, were Maryanne Mariyaselvam, Dr Peter Young, and Dr John Gibson, from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.
The Alarm is used to prevent drug theft and tampering. It has a motion detector, alarm, and camera, and if the drug trolley is left open and unattended, the alarm ‘bleeps’ and alerts the nurse to re-attend.
The winners received a specially engraved glass trophy, and £2,000 to help progress their idea.
Pictured, left to right, are: BBC Look East presenter, Susie Fowler-Watt, Dr John Gibson, Dr Peter Young, Maryanne Mariyaselvam, and Simon Fryer, Kiss Communications.
