Ealing Hospital is to go live this week with an e–portering app that streamlines the process of requesting a porter.
Following a successful implementation at Norwick Part Hospital, part of
The platform is to go live on Wednesday this week, replacing the existing practice of staff filling out a request form for more than 100,000 transfer requests a year.
The trust said the time it takes to complete a request using Infinity is six minutes faster, and calculates the saving to be over 10,000 hours in result.
Miriam Harris, Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine, LNWH, said: “Infinity has been a real success at our sister A&E service at Northwick Park so we’re really looking forward to its introduction at Ealing.”
“It’s faster, more reliable and efficient than the previous system and enables porters to track tasks on their mobile phones.”
“It also allows us to accurately track patient movement in and out of the department, making things a lot easier for staff as well as helping improve patient experience.”
