Are you storing medicines safely and at the correct temperature?

Whether it is in the GP’s surgery, on a ward in a hospital, a room in a care home, or community-based clinic, patients need access to safe medicines when they are at the most vulnerable.

But bad practices and processes can set in and poor controls can go unchallenged. Manual mundane paper-based processes are seldom followed, detailed records of bad events seldom come to light.

Even when staff raise concerns, they are not always acted on, due to work load or impact on overstretched budgets.

What’s needed is a truly independent monitoring system where paper records cannot be recreated or lost, where texts cannot be deleted and emails erased. Actively contacting the point of care provider in person and bringing to their attention a failing fridge or freezer by a trained independent member of staff. The storage of vaccines, bloods, insulin and a range of medicines don’t just become inactive, they can become outright dangerous if used, putting lives at risk.

It’s therefore important that an alert or alarm is raised which triggers a corrective action report which requires action. This is unavoidable and investigating the cause is mandatory as well as detailing the corrective action, all these processes being trackable and auditable for quality control processes required to maintain patient safety and to provide healthy outcomes.

What role can technology support?

Tutela is the world’s largest independent healthcare and life science temperature monitoring and data insights platform for critical process control of temperature sensitive biological inventory and products.

Tutela’s technology can remotely monitor every fridge or freezer door, temperature, ambient and humidity. In every room, ward, department, hospital or remote clinic all under one account. Protected, secure with full reporting and action audit trail.

With independent monitoring of the healthcare and drug development activity, we can Improve health outcomes, protect reputations and support your team

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