Listed below are the current users of EDM2000™. These hospitals are the majority of the main paediatric centres of excellence throughout England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales:

Our most recent addition to the EDM2000 hospitals is the the new children's hospital in Oxford. This is part of the John Radcliffe Hospital and is a centre of excellence for the area. Due to the charity status of this hospital we provided additional licences and a year of free support to assist the hospital.

We are very pleased to welcome this new client to our expanding base of EDM2000 users. This is a rapidly expanding and developing hospital that understands the vital benefits that using EDM will bring to the dietetics department. Currently the department is based at the original site but will be moving to the new 'Alex' site in June 2007. As all funds for the EDM system were raised by charity we matched this with an equal amount to facilitate the full funding of the project.

October 2008 - the Alex just won an award for it's design, click on the link below for the full story:

Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the leaders in the field of child health and was the first hospital to use EDM2000™ and have been using it now for over ten years. It is used to assist the dieticians in the calculations of highly complex modular feeds to the labelling of feed bottles and simple 'ready to feeds'. Full stock use figures are generated along with comprehensive patient details of all feeds given.

The Royal London Hospital has been a user of EDM2000™ for almost as long as Great Ormond Street.

The hospital is undergoing a massive amount of rebuilding and will eventually be the largest new hospital in England.

Head Dieticians comments: EDM has been used by our dieticians and milk room for many years. It is an instrumental tool in our daily practice. EDM ensures that complex feeds are made correctly and labelled with accurate patient information and storage information. The system maintains a history of a patient's feeds, which is useful for patients who are frequently re-admitted. It's recent upgraded features allow EDM to be used to monitor stock usage, which can be compared against stock orders. We are very happy with the level of technical support we receive from the creator of EDM.

Another leading London hospital and very famous teaching hospital. They have been using EDM2000™ for several years now and are currently expanding the use within the hospital. They have helped produce several innovation for EDM2000™. We are currently working with the hospital to provide comprehensive EBM milk bank capabilities.

A long term user of EDM2000™, they use the program throughout the hospital and can access the program from the wards and outpatients as well as the dietetic department and special feed unit. This saves time when ordering feeds.

The special feed unit at the Children’s Hospital provides feeds for more than 100 infants and children on a daily basis, preparing and delivering 400-500 bottles each day.

EDM has been used at Birmingham Children’s Hospital since 2001. The introduction required major changes in working practices for dietetic and special feed unit staff but with appropriate staff training EDM has become a reliable and efficient method of feed formulation, preparation and labelling. Due to the complex nature of many of the feeds used in this specialist unit the program also helps to ensure accuracy of the composition in feeds, particularly those with multiple ingredients.

The flexibility of the system has allowed the programme to be tailored to the specific needs of our hospital. Regular updates that are provided for all users are helpful but modifications designed in collaboration with our department specifically for local use have proved most valuable in maintaining an efficient and safe special feed service.

Below is a news item about the Special Feed Unit at Birmingham's Children's Hospital:

Hospital stars are rewarded

Aug 26 2008

DEEP in the bowels of Birmingham Children’s Hospital lie some of the unsung heroes that play a vital role in keeping sick tots alive.

Busily mixing up potion-like concoctions, the seven-strong team of the Special Feed Unit has, until now, been one of the hospital’s best kept secrets.

But their efforts have been rewarded after earning a top five star rating from environmental health inspectors for the way they work and keep food as safe and bug-free for tender little bodies.

The team create more than 100 liquid meals every day of the week for desperately ill children that are so sick, they cannot even swallow food.

Nurse Rose Dileva, the special feed unit supervisor, said staff had to be precise and focussed when creating the high energy “super-meals”, mixing together medicine, vitamins, fats and carbohydrates into liquid form, to be fed through tubes or bottles to young patients.

They also handle and process breast milk for infants, who are currently too unwell to feed directly from their mother’s breast.

“It is a big responsibility and an integral part of the hospital because we are making up the sole nutrition for children that can’t eat normal food,” said mother-of-two Rose, who has worked at the hospital for 12 years.

“What we make will help their growth and well-being, so it is very rewarding and it is nice to have our work recognised.

“All the meals are pasteurised to stop bacteria forming but we also have to be meticulously clean in everything we do.

“Sometimes we get parents down here, as we show them how to make up special powdered foods when the child leaves hospital, and they find it a little less intense. We also offer tea and compassion as we are all parents and understand what it’s like to have a sick child.”

The unit works with dieticians at the hospital to make sure the mixtures have every essential ingredient and drug necessary.

Link for story: http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/08/26/hospital-stars-are-rewarded-97319-21608673/

The history of Pendlebury Children's Hospital, as it is affectionally known, is the history of the oldest continuous service for sick children in this country. A well established user of EDM2000™, they access the system from two different sites and have the Special Feed Unit in another building. All this functionality greatly assists in accurate and safe feeds being produced on time by a highly effective Special Feed Unit team.

The installation of EDM has seen improved communication with our Special Feeds Unit when initiating new feeds. The improved presentation of feed recipes and feed analysis improves our professionalism and avoids errors from the misinterpretation of hand-writing. The historical records can be used down to speciality level for audits, costings, stock usage and service planning. Detailed feed analysis can be accessed at the press of a button. The EDM engineer always takes on board our suggestions for additions to the existing system.

This site is separate from the main hospital at Pendlebury but the dieticians can access the same EDM2000™ and place orders directly with the formula room. They use the program with a wide range of children and feeds are delivered from the main site. These feeds are labelled using one of the advanced features of EDM in that the feed expire time can be set to individual levels for each ward, depending on the method of transportation and subsequent micro biology associated with the standard method.

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children has 266 inpatient beds, 12 day case beds, and handles approximately 90,000 out-patients, 15,000 in-patients, 7,300 day cases and 35,000 A&E attendances every year. The hospital provides care for newborn babies right up to children around 13 years of age.

The Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital delivers approximately 3500 babies each year. It has 70 maternity beds plus 28 Paediatric Department cots which includes Intensive Care and the Special Baby Unit.

Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust is the largest NHS Trust in Wales and one of the largest in the UK.

It provides day to day health services to a population of around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan who need hospital treatment, mental health care, care for elderly people and children as well as a growing range of community-based services, including specialist dental services, and new therapies as alternatives to hospital admission.

Patients also attend from across Wales for a range of specialist services, for which the Trust is regarded as a centre of excellence, including paediatric, renal, cardiac, neurological services and bone marrow transplantation.

One of our recent new user of EDM2000™, they are rapidly getting to grips with the power and flexibility of the system and are now running 'live' on the program. This hospital is the centre of excellence for the whole of Wales and is ensuring it maintains that lead by using EDM2000™.

This is another specialist children's hospital that has used EDM2000™ for many years. Here they use the local label printing facility to enable both labels and recipes to be easily produced by the dietician's and passed on to the milk room thus not requiring the milk room to use any computer. This ensures a phased implementation of the system and gradual introduction of new working practices.

Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children Crumlin is an acute paediatric teaching hospital with 241 beds, employing 1200 staff. It is Ireland's largest paediatric hospital and is responsible for the provision of the majority of tertiary care services for children and medical research for childhood illnesses. They use the EDM2000™ program option of ward orders to allow the ward staff to order basic feeds from the wards direct to the formula room. Thus, all formula feeds, enteral feeds and supplements are monitored, labelled and tracked within the system.

EDM2000™ was introduced to Our Lady’s Children's Hospital in 2003. The Formula Room at the hospital prepares approximately 75 sets of infant feeds (500 bottles) per day, of which 66% are special feeds. In addition all enteral and supplementary feeds for older children are distributed through the EDM2000™ system.

The introduction has resulted in improved provision of uniquely identified feeds to all patients with increased accountability across the following disciplines – Dietetics, Formula Room and Ward Staff. All involved report improved quality and safety.

It entailed a change in work practice within the Formula Room and dietetic department with which they are now very comfortable.

Ward staff indicate reduced telephone calls to the Formula Room for clarification of feeds. They are very impressed with EDM2000™ which they find very user friendly.

Who uses EDM2000™?

Hospital stars are rewarded