Standard Register Poised to Make Impact in UK with Patient ID Bands
01 Octobre 2010 - 9:44PM
Business Wire
Long recognized for its patient identification leadership,
Standard Register (NYSE: SR) Healthcare is now poised to make its
mark in the United Kingdom (UK). Led by its trading partner, the JL
Group Limited of Lancashire, England, the company’s laser
wristbands, which are marketed under the PatientBand brand, are
quickly gaining favor among hospitals in the National Health
Service (NHS), which serves an estimated 60 million people
throughout the UK.
“We’ve worked closely with Standard Register and NHS Trusts in
developing the PatientBand to align with hospital requirements and
address the National Patient Safety Association’s (NPSA) Safer
Practice Notice of 2007,” said Don O’Connor, JL Group joint
managing director. “Those efforts provided the foundation for
winning the framework contract with the NHS Supply Chain. In fact,
we were ranked number one overall, based on price, product
evaluation and our ability to deliver.”
A UK study revealed that during 2006 over 24,000 patients had
been mismatched to their care, and that nearly 3,000 of those
mismatches related to wristbands and their use. The market for the
PatientBand was created when the NPSA advised all NHS organizations
that by July 2009 handwritten wristbands were to become a thing of
the past, and that all wristbands must be printed directly from
their internal patient administration systems (PAS).
PatientBand products use Standard Register’s design, which
combines wristbands with patient labels on the same laser sheet.
The patient data, which can include bar codes and photographs, is
printed on the wristband and replicated on the labels at the same
time, so that safe patient identification is achieved throughout
the patient’s stay.
According to O’Connor, some of their UK clients started
purchasing the PatientBand even prior to their winning the NHS
contract. “They saw how easily and efficiently their staff handled
our wristbands, and how comfortable and safe they were for the
patients to wear,” he explained.
Standard Register pioneered the industry’s laser wristband
design, which integrates patient ID bands and labels on a single
sheet. It is now widely used in acute care settings throughout the
U.S. The relationship with JL Group provides Standard Register with
its first avenue into the UK healthcare market.
“Patient safety is a critical priority around the globe,” said
Brad Cates, president of Standard Register Healthcare. “It’s
gratifying to know we can support the JL Group with products that
can help UK hospitals establish the essential foundation for
reducing errors and improving the quality of care.”
About the JL Group Limited
JL Group is a leading Print Management and Stationery company
based in Haslingden, Lancashire, England with its own
state-of-the-art printing facility. The PATIENTBAND range of
wristband products comply with all of the NPSA’s 2007 Safer
Practice Notice specifications and provide for the adult, pediatric
and baby patient groups. More information can be found at
www.patientband.co.uk, contact with the company can be made by
e-mail to sales@jlcomp.co.uk, or by telephone at 01706 833633. More
information about the JL Group can be found at
www.jlcomp.co.uk.
About Standard Register
Standard Register is a premier document services provider,
trusted by companies to manage the critical documents they need to
thrive in today's competitive climate. Employing nearly a century
of industry expertise, Lean Six Sigma methodologies and other
leading technologies, the Company helps organizations increase
efficiency, reduce costs, mitigate risks, grow revenue and meet the
challenges of a changing business landscape. The Company offers
document and label solutions, technology solutions, consulting and
print supply chain services to help clients manage documents
throughout their enterprises. More information is available at
http://www.standardregister.com.
The Standard Register Healthcare Business serves more than 3,100
hospitals and 100 of the nation's top integrated delivery networks
(IDNs). It helps healthcare providers bridge the worlds of paper
and electronic with document management and workflow automation
solutions for patient identification and documentation, secure
prescriptions, training, patient and marketing communications, as
well as professional services and print supply chain services .
More information is available at
www.standardregister.com/healthcare.
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