Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Paul Marsden (Labour), on Thursday, 13 July 2000, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 19 members in total.

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CLINICAL APPLICATIONS FOR LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

That this House strongly supports the Clinical Applications for Logistics Management (CALM) system developed over 13 years at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital by Clinical Director, Mr Andrew Hay and his team, which is a clinician-led, computer system that effectively manages hospital bed occupancy and has achieved a 60 per cent. reduction in patient admission cancellations; notes that in 1998 the Emergency Services Advisory Team declared that CALM provided the only effective bed management solution in the National Health Service, in 1999 CALM achieved NHS Beacon Status and in February 2000 the National Audit Office report praised CALM, and thanks Lord Wolfson for his sponsorship of the system and Sema Helix project team for their support; recognises a new improved version of CALM will be available from July 2000; notes that 56,000 patients in the NHS suffer from last minute cancellations of planned hospital admissions; believes that CALM provides a cost effective, innovative quality solution to this problem; and urges the Government to pilot CALM across the NHS with a view to full implementation to delivery improved patient services.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

972 

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Admissions Hospitals Hospital beds NHS Management techniques Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk