Elcom

1 in 4 NHS staff lose more than 10 hours a week to admin. 92% deal with duplicated processes every week. That’s time taken away from patients. Elcom builds procurement and inventory systems for healthcare. Stock is visible and ready at the point of care, so clinicians stop hunting for supplies and get back to their patients. Book a demo and see how it works for your trust.

Every NHS trust runs differently, so Elcom starts by understanding your challenges before building a system around them. Compliance is built in from day 1. Rollout happens in stages that suit your teams, and every item and pound becomes visible across the organisation. The result is procurement that fits the way your clinicians and finance teams actually work. Book a demo and see how it works for your trust.

Most trusts are quietly living with the same handful of issues and most days, they stay just about under control. - Equipment shifts between departments with nobody quite tracking where it lands - Manual, handwritten ordering leaves holes that only get noticed once an auditor comes looking - Regulatory expectations keep climbing, while the teams responsible stay the same size - When a product expires, working out which shelves and patients were affected takes far longer than it should None of this is new and none of it is anyone's fault. It's what happens when a supply chain runs without a single, connected view of what's happening across it. Elcom brings stock, ordering and traceability together in 1 place, so you've already got the answer before anyone has to ask the question.

Most procurement teams can answer some of the questions that come up at audit time and hesitate on the rest. It's not usually a sign of anything being wrong, it's just that the evidence sits in different places, different systems, different people's memory. This checklist gathers the 5 questions that tend to come up most, covering stock visibility, supplier spend, paper trails, compliance status and tail end spend. It takes a few minutes to go through and it's a much easier way to check your own answers than finding out at audit time.

Checking recall logs and expiry dates by hand is a job clinical teams do carefully and it takes time they rarely have. Elcom's Point of Care replaces that with a single scan at the patient's side. If a product is expired or has been recalled, the risk is flagged before the item is used. Every scan also links the item to the patient, so traceability is there when it's needed. Talk to us about what this could mean for your Trust.

Most clinicians know the feeling of hunting for something that should have been on the shelf. It's frustrating and it takes time nobody has to spare. Elcom automates stockroom tracking in the background, so the records stay right without anyone having to stop what they're doing. University Hospital Leicester reclaimed 2,570 clinical hours after automating its inventory processes with Elcom. Find out what that could look like in your trust.