Aberdeen Royal Infirmary uses ExtraMed software

NHS Grampian is planning to roll out a real-time bed management system across its nine hospitals following a deployment at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The BEDS system from ExtraMed has replaced a paper-based system in which ward managers would monitor and report on the bed status of their ward twice-daily. It allows staff to view the real-time status of beds from any trust workstation. Aberdeen Royal Infirmary agreed to deploy the software after a pilot in the acute medical and receiving areas of the hospital proved successful earlier this year. The system is now being deployed on a phased basis. It will eventually be used to monitor all 900 beds on site and NHS Grampian is planning to use it in its other hospitals eventually. Assistant general manager, Adam Coldwells, said: “The software not only shows us, minute by minute,... [read full story]