TIDMTIME 
 
 
Timestrip PLC 
01 July 2009 
 
Timestrip plc 
("Timestrip" or the "Company") 
 
 
Preliminary findings by the Whittington Hospital 
 
 
 
 
The Company is pleased to provide an update on the previously announced 'in-use 
assessment' of TimestripIV by the Whittington Hospital in London. 
 
 
TimestripIV is designed to help hospitals comply with existing policy directives 
that stipulate the need to change Peripheral Intravenous Cannulae (PVCs) every 
72 hours. 
 
 
The Whittington introduced TimestripIV to a pilot medical ward between 1 May to 
13 June 2009 during which time routine inspection of the TimestripIV was 
incorporated into the existing Trust wide cannula inspection policy. 
 
 
The following observations and feedback have now been received: 
 
 
  1.  The pilot ward maintained a 100% compliance rate with the Trust's cannula site 
  inspection policy during the period in question. 
  2.  The Timestrip time elapse display is accurate and correlates well with written 
  clinical records. It could form the basis of a reliable mechanism of 
  demonstrating a 'within 72 hour' display without the need to refer to or compile 
  serial records with a potential saving on nursing time. 
  3.  TimestripIV received positive feedback from some patients who welcomed the 
  additional information it offered. No adverse patient feedback was received. 
  4.  No adverse comments about TimestripIV were received from the nursing staff 
  involved in making the cannula site observations and nearly 21% actually 
  preferred it to the isolated site inspection proforma. Adoption of the 
  recommendations in point 5 below would be likely to significantly increase this 
  number by introducing efficiency gains during site inspections. 
  5.  The greatest benefit from Timestrip can be realised by co-locating the Timestrip 
  and the iv cannula so that visual site inspection of the cannulated site and the 
  Timestrip display can be looked at in a single observation. 
 
 
 
 
 
Deborah Wheeler, Director of Nursing & Clinical Development, The Whittington 
Hospital: "We are very pleased with the preliminary findings from the pilot. A 
focus group of nurses will be conducted shortly to provide feedback on some 
basic design changes that have been requested to locate the TimestripIV closer 
to the cannulation site, at which time we will explore the option of requesting 
that our suppliers include TimestripIV as a standard component in their 
Cannulation packs." 
 
 
 
 
For more information please contact: 
Paul Freedman, Joint CEO, Timestrip Plc    01462 440700 
Geoff Nash, FinnCap, NOMAD             020 7600 1658 
 
This information is provided by RNS 
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