Flucloxasavin’
Reasons we selected the project
- Wastage highlighted via emails
- Aseptic overproduction
- Unlicensed medicine
Our objectives
- To have ownership of ordering of stock
- Central holding area
- Impact on dispensary staff
- Improve the ordering of process e-non stock
- Improve stock control
- Reduce unnecessary involvement
- Create S.O.P
How we achieved our objectives
- Questionnaire was sent to wards to capture data.
- Root cause analysis
- Process map trial in Moorhouse
- Audit taken on to the wards
- Communication between wards staff and team
Skills we learnt
- Practical problem solver
- Risk assessments
- Data analysis
- Visual management
- Waste elimination and Cause effect diagrams
Before
Quality- over the period of 3 weeks of daily visits to the wards 30% of bags were wasted.
Cost – £8,054.32 wasted on man hours due to overproduction of stock.
Delivery – the process of making the flucoxacillin from start to finish took approx. 4 hours to make 40 bags. Over the year it is 850 working hours
After
By implementing the improvements we believe we can reduce the cost and wastage of the overproduction of Flucoxacillin by approximately 50%.