NHS Salford Royal Trust
Encouraging safe practices at the NHS Salford Royal Trust by implementing several components of the Beabloo Interaction Care solution.
Salford Care Organisation – Aiming to deliver safe, clean and personal care to all.
Salford Care Organisation is responsible for a range of community and primary care services across the city and at Salford Royal Hospital. It also provides specialist services
to Greater Manchester and beyond.
Salford Royal was the first hospital in the north of England to achieve the highest rating of outstanding by the Care Quality Commission. It’s now the major trauma centre for Greater Manchester and the hub site for high-risk emergency general surgery for Salford, Bolton and Wigan.
Home to the Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences and the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre, they are also a University Teaching Trust with a team dedicated to training and educating clinicians of the future.
The Challenge
NHS Salford Royal Trust wanted to try out an innovative approach to protecting patients and staff from COVID-19 on their premises. With a team of 7,500 staff members and over 1.2 million outpatient appointments and 93,000 inpatient admissions per year, they decided that an automated and intelligent system would help them manage the pandemic better.
NHS Salford Royal Trust approached Scan to help them implement a system that would automatically check people’s temperature and detect people with a fever at the very entrance of the hospital. Considering staff shortages and how easily the virus can spread, the hospital couldn’t rely on staff to check temperatures, so an automated tech solution was the perfect option.
Patients’ and staff’s safety depends on respecting social distancing, so the hospital also wanted a solution that would give them insight into occupancy data. After the initial rapid response to the pandemic, the idea was to implement these solutions to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 among employees and patients, which would allow them to continue providing safe health care.
The Solution
Scan suggested the intelligent safety solution - Interaction Care, an Intel® Market Ready Solution powered by Beabloo.
Through sensors, analytics software, and digital signage, the Interaction Care solution fosters a safe environment and provides valuable insights. This solution would fulfil all of the hospital’s requirements completely.
As an official partner to deliver Beabloo’s innovative solutions in the UK, Scan provide a complete end to end solution package that includes everything from consultation, design and installation to support and maintenance.
The hospital agreed to implement four components of Interaction Care for testing purposes at their Digital Innovation Centre, a place for showcasing different projects, digital initiatives and technology to support emerging models of care. If the system could quickly identify people with fever and deliver accurate occupancy data, they would scale the system up to the hospital’s entrance area.
During the testing phase, Interaction Care proved that it could completely meet the hospital’s needs, so they decided to implement some components in the hospital’s entrance area.
The Results
The high detection accuracy of Interaction Care allowed this NHS hospital to monitor their premises automatically and efficiently.
The hospital’s main entrance area is now under intelligent technology solution control - all individuals with a fever are detected in real time and immediately reported to the hospital staff. Proactive protection and fast reaction time are vital for limiting the risk of exposure to COVID-19.
As health care staff and anyone visiting the premises have a high risk of exposure to the virus, keeping them safe is of the utmost importance.
By implementing an automated and intelligent system for managing the pandemic and optimising preventive measures, this UK hospital protects their patients and staff against possible infection, and allows the hospital to continue providing healthcare in a carefully protected environment.
Testimonial
“When we presented the solution to the executive, I think it’s fair to say they were absolutely impressed with not only the speed of response, but actually the fact that all the different components were from different suppliers and they are all the part of the same Beabloo ecosystem.
They wanted to progress to the next stage and almost immediately, together with Scan we started making plans for the installation at the hospital’s entrance.”
Keith Bentham – Digital Program Manager at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust