5 basic precautions to ensure more efficient hospital stocks

Logistics applied to pharmaceutical management follows important processes and protocols, which are essential for ensuring greater efficiency, safety and quality of all the materials involved in the operation. 

One of the crucial stages is the process of storing and stockpiling medicines and other health products, which are stored throughout the process until they are distributed. 

Therefore, good practices adopted in logistics operations can contribute to other sectors, such as hospital stock management. In this article, we list the 5 basic precautions that must be taken to guarantee excellence in hospital management.

1. Storage and organization: Medicines and materials for hospital use must be stored in appropriate places, in an organized and safe manner, to avoid damage, detour and misuse of each item.

2. Control of inputs and outputs: Controlling inflows and outflows is essential for integrated stock management. This control prevents everything from basic failures in the hospital's operation to more serious problems such as a shortage of medicines and materials, or even waste.

3. Validity check: Monitoring and controlling the expiry date of medicines and hospital supplies is a priority and mandatory action to avoid the use of expired products. It's worth remembering that everything must be recorded and followed up in a system to ensure more effective control.

4. Identification and unitarization: Along with shelf life control, medicines and hospital supplies must be correctly identified to make it easier to locate them in stock and distribute them. It is recommended to categorize the spaces allocated to each material, contributing to the logistics of the site.

5. Training and suppliers: Healthcare professionals need to be trained on a regular basis to ensure good hospital management, especially in the area of stock and storage. Well-trained suppliers and employees guarantee the quality of the products and services provided.

Care and attention to these rules is important if patients are to be treated assertively, with quality, respect and a focus on health recovery. 

Second Guilherme Matos, Head of Commercial at FIC Company - “Hospital management is built on the collaboration of all the health unit's professionals. When everyone is aware of good practices, quality is reflected in the results obtained in each area. He adds: “In today's world, we have the best of technology in favor of clinical processes. This means that even in the face of the complexity of each environment, we can optimize stock management with safety, control and waste reduction.”, Head of Commercial at FIC Company.

A FIC Company is a specialist in the supply of national and international medicines, integrated logistics for the pharmaceutical industry, CRO (Contract Research Organization), Hospitals and Bioequivalence Centers, uniting technology and solutions in supply chain and global networking.