PCS Benefits
The PCS is a unique system designed to enhance patient safety, improve Care Home performance and reduce NHS costs. The PCS gives healthcare professionals a complete solution to improve the quality of life for patients.
Benefits to Patients
Reduce Drug Errors
PCS uses unique barcode validation to help ensure that the right drug is given to the right patient at the right time, and that important administrations are not missed.
Reduce risk of overdose
The built in safety features within PCS prevent overdoses from medicines given too early and similar medicines being given at the same time. For example, the PCS prevents products containing Paracetamol being given within 4 hours of each other.
Improve Decision Support
The Clinical Decision Support tool within the PCS helps rectify potential prescribing anomalies, whilst information gathered about administration times can also help improve therapy. Furthermore, a wealth of drug and patient information is available at the press of a button.
Benefits to Care Home
Easy to Use
The PCS has a user-friendly interface with logical layout and easy to follow colour coded screens. Thus allowing staff with basic training to master the important aspects of the system.
Improve Drug Round Efficiency
The PCS helps improve the efficiency of
the Drug Round by providing a list of patients to prepare for and the location of each drug required. As medicines are administered, patients are removed from the list. This helps to keep a track of which patients are still due
and ensures that patients are not missed in a drug round.
Improve Working Environment
Medicines for each resident are stored and organised logically and there is convenient space for drug round consumables. Thus offering convenience to staff performing repetitive drug rounds. Maneuvering the PCS trolley is also simple and effortless thanks to its unique motorisation.
Ease Staff workload
The system removes the need for laborious paper based recording including the MAR Chart, the CD register and Returns Book. This presents significant time saving opportunities as well as easing the burden of such tasks.
Improve Stock Control
By ensuring the correct stock levels the PCS can help ensure patients do not go without their medication. Equally, the system can make sure drugs are not ordered unnecessarily.
Improve Accuracy of Records
The transfer of data between pharmacy and Care Home is seamless with the PCS. This ensures that everyone is working off the latest instructions and that new drug, dose changes and stoppages are implemented immediately in the interest of patient care.
Improve Care Home
Compliance and Ratings
The PCS ensures full accountability for staff and helps improve internal audit and further ensures the Care Home is maximising patient care. As the PCS works under a logical protocol it actively encourages compliance with the Care Homes’ Medication Policy.
Benefits to NHS
Reduce Drug Waste
Drug waste represents a high cost to the NHS. By managing stock more effectively the PCS can substantially reduce medication waste and make savings to the NHS.
Reduce hospital admissions
The PCS aims to keep patients out of
hospital by minimising preventable admissions resulting in further savings
to the NHS.
How it works
The PCS is a unique system designed to enhance patient safety, improve Care Home performance and reduce NHS costs. The PCS gives healthcare professionals a complete solution to improve the quality of life for patients.
Why PCS?
For many years, the Care Home sector has battled relentlessly to address medication issues. Poor medication management and administration accounts for a large number of errors which adversely affect patient care.
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