set optimisation and harmonisation

Quality

• Standardisation to the highest common denominator

Innovation

• Maximises your current assets

Productivity

• Reduces the need to fast track

Prevention

• Eliminates unnecessary reprocessing

Re-evaluating the contents of your theatre trays can not only potentially reduce the number of sets in circulation but also provide a new source of instruments which can be utilised in the formation of new trays.

Why would you optimise and harmonise?

• New speciality being developed within the hospital
• Restructuring within the hospital
• Merging of hospitals
• Move to an external decontamination provider
• Need to ensure compliance with tray weights for health and safety
• Uneconomical instrument inventory
• Reduces the size and weight of sets in use

Optimisation of this nature can also provide cost savings on the reprocessing budget should a reduction on “band” costs be achieved.

Benefits

• Reduces unnecessary capital expenditure
• Reduces complexity in theatres and therefore the risk of errors
• Improves the purchasing process and pricing
• Reduces the weight of sets
• Shortens the packing time in sterile services, improves set availability
• Leaner reprocessing procedures, therefore reducing costs
• Potential to utilise redundant instruments and therefore reduce “fast track sets”
• Allows for the consolidation of sets in use

Steps

Step 1

Define and standardise the configuration of the set contents, in consulation with your clinicians

Step 2

Set optimisation, this is carried out in conjunction with an instrument upgrade and refurbishment programme to ensure that your  instruments have 100% functionality

Step 3

Implement a preventative maintenance contract or complete managed service in order to preserve the functionality and performance of your surgical instruments