Route-scheduling software frees up nurses
Nurses working for a Swedish home-help service can now spend 40% more
time caring for patients thanks to a logistics program from the UK.
The route-scheduling program, LogiX from Halesowen firm DPS
International, has enabled nurses working for the service, called Rora,
to spend 25% less time on the road, dramatically reducing costs and
increasing efficient working time by 40%.
DPS International CEO Paul Palmer says healthcare organisations in
the UK could learn a lot from the Swedish healthcare experience:
“Experience from other businesses who work within the logistics field
shows that the results achieved with vehicle-routing software are not
always taken seriously as they seem too impressive. Now that the new
planning system has been successfully integrated into the daily work,
and they’ve actually seen the benefits, they don’t want to go back to
the old way of planning.”
Source: bjhc&im March 2007
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