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ActivHeal® Cuts Costs
ActivHeal® Cuts Costs.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 8082D Advanced Medical Solutions Grp PLC 09 December 2009 \n \n\n\n\n\nFor immediate release\n\n\n\n9 December 2009\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAdvanced Medical Solutions Group plc\n(\"AMS\" or the \"Group\")\n\nMajor London Teaching Hospital endorses financial savings offered by ActivHeal® range\n\nWinsford, UK: Advanced Medical Solutions Group plc (AIM: AMS), the global medical technology company, today announces that its ActivHeal® value range of advanced woundcare dressings has delivered annualised cost savings of 54% to University College London Hospitals' NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) whilst maintaining a high standard of clinical care.\n\nThese findings were reported in an article entitled \"Using ActivHeal® dressings in a London teaching hospital: a cost analysis\" published in a recent edition of the British Journal of Nursing 2009 (Tissue Viability Supplement) Vol 18 No 20, by Sarah Lewis, Tissue Viability Nurse UCLH.\n\nActivHeal® is a value range of products provided directly to the NHS by AMS as a first line therapy for routine wounds. These complement the use of AMS's new technologies, such as silver alginate, which are sold through strategic partners for treating more difficult wounds.\n\nThe ActivHeal® range offers equivalent technical and clinical performance to similar branded products but at a substantially reduced cost thereby delivering real and immediate savings to the NHS. This potential saving is estimated to be of the order of £25 million per year in the UK which helps to balance budgets and afford new technologies for problematic cases. ActivHeal® products are currently used in around half of the NHS Foundation and Acute Hospital Trusts in the UK. Hospital usage represents around 25% of the current £100 million NHS spend on advanced woundcare dressings with the majority being in the community.\n\nIn the study reported in the British Journal of Nursing, the ActivHeal® range of dressings consisting of foams, films, alginates, gels and hydrocolloids were substituted for \"branded\" dressings over a three-month...