The Cagliari University Hospital has joined the Single Medicines Hub, a regional project aimed at ensuring safe and readily available medicines and medical devices. The service, which has already involved other local hospitals, aims to standardize, reengineer, and optimize logistics flows within the regional system and now involves all operating units of the Cagliari University Hospital.
The Hub centrally and uniformly manages and distributes medications and medical devices to all Regional Health Service facilities. The new organization, coordinated by Ares Sardegna in synergy with the Department of Health and with the collaboration of all the pharmaceutical services of the companies, including that of the University Hospital of Cagliari, will lead to improved efficiency and safety of regional healthcare logistics, optimizing the management of healthcare flows and ensuring uniform and timely distribution throughout the region.
This is a significant step for the AOU and was made possible thanks to the work of many departments (from the Pharmacy, to the Technical Services, to the Medical Directorate, to the Planning and Management Control, to General Affairs, to the Superintendency) who collaborated intensively to achieve this result, along with, of course, Ares. For Vincenzo Serra, General Director of the AOU of Cagliari, "the activation of the Southern Sardinia Medicines Hub represents a strategic turning point for Sardinian healthcare. Through the centralization of supplies, it guarantees constant availability of medicines, streamlines logistics, and rationalizes resources, ensuring democratic access to care for Sardinian citizens."
"The expected system-wide benefits are diverse, both for citizens and for Sardinian healthcare facilities," explains Valerio Fadda, Director of Innovation Management, Audit and Organizational Processes at Ares . "The single Pharmaceutical Hub," Fadda adds, "envisages the planning and rationalization of purchases based on consumption, thus reducing costs and waste, as well as the presence of centralized, compliant facilities with appropriate volumes and surfaces for the storage of drugs and medical devices, ensuring greater safety. Logistics and inventory management will be more streamlined and efficient, making medications always available, guaranteeing product traceability and batch-based inventory management."
For the Sardinia Region, says Paolo Serra, director of the Ares Pharmaceutical and HTA Hub , "this is a strategic project that aims to create a new, homogeneous and centralized system. An innovative healthcare logistics model that includes three warehouses and two transit points , for a total surface area of 13,500 m2 (Cagliari 8,200 m2, Nuoro 2,400 m2, Sassari 2,800 m2)." The service is managed by Plurima, continues Paolo Serra, "the leading company that won the tender, a reliable partner that has been operating for over 30 years, offering services of proven quality and innovation."
The AOU of Cagliari, says Arianna Cadeddu, director of the Pharmacy of the University Hospital , "has already equipped itself with a computerized system for prescribing and managing drug supplies for several years, and has technological tools that allow for effective and structured integration into the new organizational model of the external Medicines Hub."
In light of the project's launch, the Pharmacy Director concludes, "It is essential to fully leverage the potential of the existing computerized system, promoting its appropriate, comprehensive, and consistent use by all staff involved in the prescribing and logistics processes. Rigorous and informed use of the platform is a strategic element in ensuring medication traceability, data accuracy, inventory optimization, and supply continuity."
(Unioneonline)