Use case: NHS trusts
Traceability your trust can evidence.
Genesis captures GS1 data at receipt and at the point of care, so stock, device traceability and cost are visible across every department and recall checks take hours rather than weeks.
Trusted by NHS trusts across England and by NHS Scotland's national Scan for Safety program.
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust case study
£10M+
Stock value brought into visibility
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust case study
210
Departments live, with over 70,000 orders raised and close to 600,000 items tracked
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust case study
£4.16M
Year-one attributable value in cardiology
NHS Scotland Scan for Safety case study
Weeks to hours
Time to establish whether a device named in a field safety notice is present in the system
The problem
Efficiency targets, safety expectations, paper processes
NHS trusts are asked to deliver more with less: efficiency targets, tighter budgets and rising expectations on patient safety and device traceability. Yet in many departments, stock is still counted by hand, implants are logged on paper and a recall means days of searching.
Without the right platform, the data stays partial, the benefits stay theoretical and the regulatory obligations keep coming.
Scan4Safety showed what GS1 standards make possible: every product identified, every location known and every patient linked to the devices they received. The challenge is turning that standard into daily practice across hundreds of departments without adding to clinical workload.
Genesis has really enabled us to uncover hidden value in our supply chain. Now that we can easily trace supplies across our hospitals in an automated and intuitive way, we have a new level of visibility over stock. With this visibility, we have been able to better align purchasing decisions with demand and significantly reduce waste, translating to substantial cost savings.
Paul Pilgrem
Assistant Director, Partners Procurement Service, North Central London ICS
Read the Royal Free London story
A day in the life
A day in the life: a trust procurement and supply team
Two versions of the same day. One trust is working from paper. One is working from Genesis.
On paper
With Genesis
Receiving
08:00
A department runs short
10:00
An implant is used
12:30
A field safety notice arrives
14:30
Efficiency reporting
16:30
Genesis has really enabled us to uncover hidden value in our supply chain. Now that we can easily trace supplies across our hospitals in an automated and intuitive way, we have a new level of visibility over stock. With this visibility, we have been able to better align purchasing decisions with demand and significantly reduce waste, translating to substantial cost savings.
Paul Pilgrem
Assistant Director, Partners Procurement Service, North Central London ICS
Solutions
How Genesis closes the gap
Scan4Safety is a standard. Genesis is the platform that turns it into daily practice, from the loading bay to the patient and back into evidence.
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Capture GS1 data from receipt to patient
Goods are receipted on scan, tracked to their location and replenished from real consumption. Recall management draws on MHRA notices and manufacturer-direct recalls, and flags affected items wherever they are scanned.
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Link every device to the patient
A single scan at the point of use records the device identifier, batch and expiry against the patient episode, with expiry, recall and laterality checks before the packet is opened.
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Track tissue and equipment too
Chain of custody for tissue from donor to patient, and real-time visibility of care-critical equipment, on the same platform as consumables and implants.
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Evidence for efficiency and clinical variation
Dashboards for stock value, waste, cost per case and clinical variation give procurement, finance and clinical leads one set of numbers to act on.
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Case study
Royal Free London: hidden value uncovered across 210 departments
Common questions, answered directly
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Genesis is purpose-built for GS1 scanning and supports hospitals operating under Scan4Safety in England, Scan for Safety in NHS Scotland and equivalent traceability programs.
Genesis maintains a central recall repository that includes MHRA notices and manufacturer-direct recalls. Affected items are flagged at the next scan anywhere in the trust, and patient-level traceability is available for items already used.
No. Genesis integrates with existing finance, inventory and patient record systems rather than replacing them.
Unbarcoded lines are given an internal barcode reference so staff still complete the process in one scan, while supplier requirements move the trust toward full GS1 compliance over time.
That is the recommended approach. It concentrates effort on the highest-risk device areas and produces a framework the trust can repeat.
Yes. Genesis supports NHS Scotland's national program and hospitals in Ireland, including Tallaght University Hospital.
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See Scan4Safety working across your trust.
Request a demo to see GS1 capture from receipt to patient, recall checks in hours and trust-wide stock visibility, mapped to your departments and existing systems.
