MedStor was recently tasked with providing ‘the foundation for materials management solutions’ throughout the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Children in Govan, Glasgow.
Its goal was to ‘support the lean stockholding system that will help minimise waste and maximise storage across all departments’.
The Govan site houses maternity, children’s and adult acute hospitals, and laboratory services, on one campus, plus Scotland’s biggest critical care complex, and one of its biggest emergency departments. MedStor holds the contract to provide HTM 71 storage solutions for clinical areas in all NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s hospitals.
MedStor provided the liners, trays, and dividers for medical consumable cabinets throughout the new site and, with partner, Metro, the racking systems serving the operating theatres.
Its liners, trays, and dividers ‘allow cabinet space to be maximised – storing more products, more efficiently, in less space’ – via “making the absolute most of the space available, ensuring product protection and segregation, and avoiding ‘stockouts’ by supporting the hospital’s own IT system to show stock shortages immediately”.
MedStor’s colour-coded identification system – which uses coloured cards to facilitate locating items – has been adopted by hospitals throughout NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and ‘is proving popular across Scotland’.
