Understanding how the NHS can use drones to improve medical logistics.
The Challenge
The UK healthcare supply chain is highly complex and critical to achieving successful patient outcomes. Various NHS trusts and other UK healthcare organisations have identified the potential for drones to increase supply chain resilience and agility, whilst providing fair and equal access to healthcare services.
Various organisations are working across the UK to trial drones within the healthcare supply chain, though these projects remained siloed and most NHS stakeholders lacked confidence in understanding how drones could support them.
“It was fantastic to input into this work and I’m please to see the guide published, which can help organisations in the health and care sector that are considering using drones as part of logistics solutions. Ajuno have done a great job!”
Alec Jackson - Senior Policy Manager, Department for Health and Social Care
The solution
To support healthcare organisations adopt drones and bring benefit to patients across the UK, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and UK Research and Innovation saw a need to bring together the various organisations and stakeholder, sharing research and learning from across UK leading projects.
In collaboration with DSIT, UKRI, the Department of Health and Social Care, Apian, King’s College London, and stakeholders across the industry, Ajuno brought together this learning alongside their drone adoption process in a comprehensive guide.
The impact
The guide numerous NHS end users to develop a clearer understanding of how they can adopt drone capabilities, whilst the project increase collaboration across the drone industry and helped to inform DHSC policies on the use of drones within healthcare.
The guide has received significant engagement from key healthcare organisations in the UK and internationally (download below).
