Yes / The lack of separation between urgent and non-urgent medical goods
encourages sub-optimal vehicle fleet operations owing to the time critical
nature of urgent items. An unattended electronic locker bank, to which
individual urgent items can be delivered thereby separating urgent and
non-urgent supply, was proposed for the Great Ormond Street Hospital in
London, UK. This concept was quantified using ‘basic’ and ‘intuitive’ hill
climbing optimisation models; and qualitatively using staff interviews and
expert reviews. Results indicated that a locker bank with a fixed height (1.7 m)
and depth (0.8 m) required a length of 4 m (basic model) and 3.63 m (intuitive
model), to accommodate 100% of urgent consignments for a typical week.
Staff interviews indicated the wider benefits such as staff personal deliveries.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/9435 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Bailey, G., Cherrett, T., Waterson, B., Breen, Liz, Long, R. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Accepted manuscript |
| Rights | © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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