title: Time to raise the bar.
abstract: The Department of Health wants all products supplied to the NHS to carry bar codes by the end of 2012. The stock control system uses handheld scanners similar to those found in supermarkets to track equipment. It has been taken up by nurses at a Leeds hospital trust, where it has saved 500,000 sterling pounds in its first year.
authors.forename: Jackie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cosh
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D007445:Inventories, Hospital; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics*; D017748:Time Management; D006113:United Kingdom