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Welcome to the Datalinx blog. Here we cover a range of posts and conversations based around our experiences of warehousing, barcoding and Sage software.

GS1 – NHS eProcurement Strategy - driving efficient healthcare

The government has produced a protocol to use auto-identification and data capture (AIDC) and GS1 standards to improve care delivery, enhance patient safety and reduce costs.NHS eProcurement

GS1 UK is working with the NHS and Department of Health to make healthcare in the UK more efficient and ultimately improve patient safety. From April 2014, the guidance and requirements on patient safety contained within the NHS eProcurement Strategy document are applicable to all organizations that provide NHS services through the NHS Standard Contract.


All other guidance and requirements in the document will additionally be applicable to acute NHS Foundation and non-foundation trusts.


GS1 UK standards can help your organization accurately identify, capture and share information; and streamline your supply chain.

 

According to Dr Dan Poulter MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health;gs1 barcode NHS "NHS eProcurement strategy will establish the global GS1 coding and PEPPOL messaging standards throughout the healthcare sector and its supporting supply chains. Compliance with these standard will enable trusts to control and manage their non-pay spending by;

• the adoption of master procurement data
• automating the exchange of procurement data
• benchmarking their procurement expenditure data against other trusts and healthcare providers..."

 

The strategy also drives patient safety benefits. Barcodes based on the GS1 standard can be read at any point in the healthcare supply chain so that a product subject to the safety alert can be quickly located and recalled. Providers of NHS funded healthcare, including the independent sector must be able to electronically track and trace individual medicines and medical devices to a specific patient...NHS eProcurement flow chart

 

As an example of how the eProcurement Strategy will be beneficial the following diagram shows the key procurement flows in the purchase-to-pay and category management processes and shows how each process flow is driven by master data, supported by the global standards, national infrastructure and local infrastructure that are required by the eProcurement strategy (Information taken from the eProcurement document).

 

The information above was provided by the NHS eProcurement strategy document and the GS1-UK website.

For more information please visit  http://www.gs1ukinhealthcare.org/  

 

 

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EU Falsified Medicines Directive 2018

EU Falsified Medicines Directive 2018

 

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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that up to 1% of medicines available in the developed world are likely to be counterfeit and when applied globally this figure increases to 10%. With many of the medicines used in the UK manufactured overseas, this multi billion pound marketplace is attractive to those who would exploit and sell dangerous and counterfeit products into the supply chain.

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Sage Certified vs Sage Approved

b2ap3_thumbnail_sage_certified_logo_generic.jpgDue to the vast number of Sage add-ons available, Sage introduced various certification and accreditation programmes. To assist in proving a company’s competency, monitor the standards and improve the quality of add-ons developed.

There are 3 key ways to check the certification of the add-on you are interested in:

1.Sage Certification
2.Sage Approved
3.Sage Developer Awards

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