Thula to showcase Alfa CD Module at Nursing Live 2024
At Thula we excited to announce their participation at the UK’s first ever national nursing festival and expo, Nursing Live 2024.
Thula will be showcasing the ground-breaking Alfa CD electronic register module, a significant technological advancement revolutionising the management of controlled drugs. Initially launched in Iceland in 2016, it has since been serving hospitals, as well as long-term and elderly care facilities in managing all ordering, extraction, balance checking, and stock oversight workflows of controlled substances.
Adele McAllister, Thula’s Country Manager UK, shares:
“In the UK, Thula has had the pleasure of working with Prof. Inderjit Singh, Chief Pharmacist, at the University Hospital in Birmingham (UHB). In close collaboration with Prof. Singh and his team of pharmacy professionals, the Alfa CD module has been adapted to meet UK-specific requirements and has included the integration of electronic signing to provide a closed-loop and fully paperless solution. UHB have been a pioneer for the Alfa CD module within the NHS, and in supporting us to ensure compliance with UK legislation and governance when managing controlled drugs.”
“Thula has also partnered with ASSA Abloy UK, a well-established vendor of lock systems within the NHS. With the integration of their unique CLIQ system, Thula have been able to combine their advanced tracking and reporting technology into the Alfa CD module, therefore providing Alfa users a more comprehensive audit trail and true control tower overview when investigating controlled drug related discrepancies.”
“Nursing Live comes at an exciting time as the Alfa CD adaptations have been fully scoped and they have now entered the controlled first phase service roll out at UHB. Our partner, Abloy UK will be collaborating with us at this event at stand 178, where we will be showcasing the integration of our two technologies. Our demo will now be using actual clinical room equipment and live data to provide a full and comprehensive demo of various controlled workflows to delegates.”
Thula’s Alfa CD electronic register module provides users:
- A control tower overview of all aspects of controlled drugs management
- Immediate and full UK regulatory compliance with electronic signing
- Effective discrepancy detection and resolution
- Complete elimination of paper-based registers
- Improved workflows support increased Care Hours per Patient Day (CHPPD)
“We are very proud and thrilled to be working with all our UK partners, creating a truly digital and revolutionising management tool for controlled drugs in a post-pandemic world. The benefits to the clinical and pharmacy teams are huge, driving greater legislative and regulatory confidence, and safer, more efficient patient care.”
“We look forward to meeting healthcare professionals from across the UK at Nursing Live this October and providing demos of our solution to them. It’s always great to be able to answer their questions and hear their stories and understand how our solution will help to address key clinical challenges for healthcare organisations within the UK and help to create more efficient work practices supporting the important care that they provide.”
During the event, healthcare professionals can visit Thula at stand 178, to discover how their Alfa CD module is digitally reshaping the management of controlled drugs.