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Upgrading to the Enterprise Edition of an award-winning compliance management solution has enabled Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to support Quality Management Systems (QMS) at the new multi-million pound Beacon Centre. Q-Pulse Enterprise Edition, from software developers Gael Ltd, has enabled the Trust to integrate QMS at both Somerset Pathology Service and the Beacon Centre in Taunton. In addition, Q-Pulse has given the Trust the ability to access QMS information across multiple sites with a single integrated system. Opening in May 2009, the new £20 million Beacon Centre at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton will provide radiotherapy treatment for more than 1000 patients each year, through radiotherapy and in-patient oncology facilities, an expanded day case chemotherapy suite and outpatient clinic facilities. With Q-Pulse already used by Somerset Pathology Service, management at the Trust wanted to extend the system to include the new Centre, to help in meeting the requirements of national and international standards and regulations including the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IRMER). ‘For more than 2 years now Somerset Pathology Service have been using Q-Pulse as their Quality Management System (QMS) solution to help in improving the quality, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our clinical services,’ explains Derek Truman, Quality Manager at Somerset Pathology Service. ‘With the opening of the Beacon this year, Q-Pulse Enterprise should enable us to encourage ownership and interaction with the Trusts’ QMS by increasing access and availability to QMS information at both sites. This should enable us to maintain and improve control of all QMS activities and actions across both the Service and the Centre, including document control, audit, CA/PA, assets and training. ‘As a single integrated system, Q-Pulse Enterprise should also enable us to reduce the duplication of effort in how we manage the requirements of multiple standards. In addition, with direct access to centralised processes, both sites should be able to organise their procedures more efficiently, in order to meet the needs of patients and in improving service effectiveness.’ For further information please contact:
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