Procedure Packs

Used in operating theatres throughout the UK and in major export markets, Pennine packs are designed and manufactured in modern, purpose-built facilities.

Long experience ensures Pennine Healthcare has a thorough understanding of the specific needs of the hospital staff. Pennine Healthcare pioneered the introduction of custom procedure packs into the United Kingdom, and provides packs for all surgical areas as well as for Angiography and Radiology.

Continual investment in people, training, quality and technology enables us to provide custom procedure packs offering true value for money with flexible response times.

Pennine Healthcare is proud of its reputation in the healthcare market and of its long-standing commitment to providing an efficient and responsive service to all customers.

Pennine Healthcare has established a core network of overseas distributors, dedicated and supported to ensure that customers and end-users receive first-class local service.

Pennine Healthcare operates a full quality assurance system accredited to ISO 9001: 2000, and ISO 13485: 2003. In addition, all our medical device pack components are CE marked and sterilised in accordance with the manufacturers instructions as stipulated in article 12 of the Medical Device Directive (93/42/eec). We are therefore confident that our procedure packs are of the highest quality.

Key Benefits

The key benefits of using Pennine Custom Procedure Packs:

• Reduction in emergency surgery response times
• Reduction of lay-up times for procedures, release of expensive nursing time for other activities
• Reduced ordering and administration costs
• Reduction of clinical waste in the theatre - environmentally friendly
• More time for direct patient care
• Complete traceability of all CE marked components used
• Quick lay-up for the next day
• Eradication of errors in setting up
• Ease of use
• Improvements to staff morale due to less stress
• Caters for surgeon’s preference
• Latex content identification

Research published in the British Journal of perioperative Nursing (January 2001) by Baines and Colquhoun using data obtained during their study at the Neuro Theatres at North Bristol NHS Trust concluded that there were three key areas where procedure packs produced benefits:

The time taken to lay up a theatre in preparation for a procedure and the subsequent reduction in response times for emergencies. They proved savings in staff lay-up time of 15 minutes per procedure even for relatively minor procedures.

The reduction of the number of stocked items required for a procedure, thereby reducing waste, ordering costs, packaging, etc.

The costs associated with the stock holding of individual stock items - one off inventory advantage.