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Coventry nurses’ clinical blood app recognised
Nurses at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust have been shortlisted for an award for its blood transfusion app.
The Hospital Transfusion Team created an app which uses an algorithm to help clinicians determine if a patient should be given a blood transfusion. The team team have been shortlisted in the Technology and Data in Nursing category at this year’s Nursing Times Awards.
The technology enables the hospital to conserve blood supplies and has reduced the amount of blood used each year by 1000 units despite seeing more patients and treating some of the most serious patients as a Major Trauma Centre.
Janine Beddow, modern matron, said: “We’re absolutely delighted to have been shortlisted for a Nursing Times Award. The app has made a huge impact with doctors and nurses on the frontline and means patients are receiving the right treatment, additionally we’re using precious blood supplies more effectively.”
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