Improving patient safety through surgical instrument tracking at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (UHMB) NHS Foundation Trust (September 2015)

Summary

Richard Greenwood is Trust Decontamination Lead & Head of Sterile Services at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (UHMB) NHS Foundation Trust. As with many NHS Trusts, UHMB were faced with problem of managing surgical instrument stocks, migration of the instruments from sets, and tracking and tracing single instruments through the decontamination process back to the patient. This case study shows how they solved this problem.