A Next Control Systems monitoring system, one of the largest “packages” supplied by the company yet, is being installed across several facilities run by one of London’s leading private hospital groups.
The Tutela “real-time monitoring system for controlled environments” has been incorporated into HCA International facilities including The Harley Street Clinic, The Princess Grace Hospital, The Portland Women and Children’s Hospital, London Bridge Hospital, The Lister Hospital, The Wellington, and the HCA Laboratories, to monitor and alert refrigeration for blood banks, pathology laboratories, dispensing and aseptic pharmacies, clinical trials, operating theatres, and an oncology centre. Tutela utilises a fully manned 24-hour temperature recording and alarm service which automatically issues alarms via a manned call centre whenever temperature, or communication to a site, fail. It is based around a “private website”, alongside “constant communication updates” to ensure stock monitoring “24/7”. HCA International serves over 300,000 patients annually in and around London. Across the hospital group, Next Controls is installing 96 sensors to monitor and alert not only refrigeration, but also, for example, positive air pressure, pressure differentials, and particle counting, in aseptic pharmacy production units. Many of the tissue and other samples in store are irreplaceable, and temperatures monitored vary from –80°C to +25°C. Tutela (photo shows Dorothy Kasibante, transfusion practitioner at HCA) is a “fully compliant, fully validated” monitoring solution which “meets all current and known future regulatory requirements”.
