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Anti-Microbial Paper - Does it work?
24/11/2011 11:13:09Anti-Microbial Paper - Does it work?
At BOE Medical Publishing we have had an independent, intensive, laboratory testing done before and after printing on Anti-Microbial Paper to ensure its germ and virus killing properties are maintained throughout the life of the paper. Not only that but it's so good that we invite you to test it.
Reasons for using Anti-Microbial Paper - It KILLS up to 99.9% of germs and bacteria including MRSA - Decreased spread/less contamination of germs ... Read more
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BOE Publishing Limited has been certified as a provider of safe, reliable, high quality health and social care information
23/11/2011 14:18:45BOE Publishing Limited has been certified as a provider of high quality health and social care information by The Information Standard scheme. BOE Publishing Limited met the scheme criteria of producing safe and reliable health and social care information. The organisation has consequently been awarded The Information Standard quality mark, which it can display on its literature and website illustrating to the public that its information can be trusted.
According to a survey carried ou... Read more
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BOE Break New Ground on Deliveries and Cross Infection Control
05/08/2011 11:46:31We are now almost two years into operating our own print studio, printing all our cards and books. In that time we have gone from strength to strength with a freedom to make mass changes to the paper we use and the quality of service now being experienced by our client base.
All our products are now produced on anti-microbial paper/card which has been tested and proven to kill 99% of bacteria such as MRSA within 2 hours. When you think that MRSA can live on paper and card produ... Read more
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Impact of Jackson reforms on Small Businesses
27/07/2011 15:20:37An interesting article below showing the far reaching consequences of the Jackson Reforms The Access to Justice Action Group (AJAG) has today published its analysis of the impact of the Government’s civil justice plans (the “Jackson reforms”) on small business (Go to AJAG website), AJAG co-ordinator Andrew Dismore said: “The Government’s impact assessments published so far hardly consider at all the very dramatic effect of their plans on small business. Any small business trying to assert i... Read more
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ASYST - Helping Hospitals by Helping Patients
27/07/2011 15:20:03Last week saw the launch of the ASYST web site. ASYST is the funding operation which allows BOE to supply over a MILLION pounds worth of resources and products every year. We advertise ASYST on the patient information cards and appointment cards we produce for hospitals and patients can use the help line to call up any service they need. When a patient contacts our dedicated call centre they will be given access to the service they need or provided the necessary information they are seeking. ... Read more
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Ayst and Twitter
10/05/2011 12:11:03Asyst begins it’s program of online social engagement using Twitter! Asyst is a uniquely people centred company who are determined to use the claims process to generate millions of pounds worth of support for hospitals up and down the country.
Asyst will begin by using BOE's team of dedicated regional managers (RMs) who have today begun a major campaign in a bid to listen and learn from their dedicated colleagues in the health and care industry.
From today, every RM will be just ... Read more
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BOE Print Studio open for business
03/05/2011 14:47:24After running the Print Studio for almost 18 months to supply our own orders for hospitals up and down the country we have now officially spread our wings to get print orders from further afield.
Phil Rabbett our Print manager and his team have a wealth of experience in printing and have brought us to a point where we can now approach local and national business and competitively quote for print work.
We will be looking to market ourselves to several business areas that will benef... Read more
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BOE gets closer to the Information Standard
29/03/2011 15:07:12BOE Publishing Limited have always looked at ways to improve the services and products we supply our NHS customer base.
We are now proceeding with the Information Accreditation, which is being undertaken by the Royal Society for Public Health.
We have had our Gap Analysis, and are now currently in the process of completing our Quality Manual and procedures to fulfil all the requirements of the standards.
As one would expect from BOE, we are putting all our efforts into ensur... Read more
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Nominated Not Once But Twice
25/03/2011 11:39:23A couple of months ago a solicitor contacted me and asked if we would mind if he put our company forward to be nominated for the Claims Innovation Awards 2011. Seeing that ASYST is the funding end of BOE and we are trying to make people recognise our scheme is different to all the other avenues people can choose when making a claim, I agreed.
Well blow me down but we have been shortlisted for two awards. They are:
'The Corporate Social Responsibility Award'
'The Claims Man... Read more
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Twitter Ye Not
18/03/2011 10:26:16Well today brings us to the end of another very productive week here at BOE and I think we will all deserve to enjoy ourselves this week end. The most notable event was the Regional Managers meeting.
Peter made the long trek from East Kent to Blackpool but even after setting off at 5.30 in the morning he still managed to be late! One thing you can always rely on is the M6 to hold you up somewhere whether your travelling North or South.
Karen arrived full of the joys of Spring wi... Read more
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Fostering an inaccurate public perception may be to the advantage of the less efficient producer
08/03/2011 12:56:12Why burning books can be a good thing
It is widely assumed that recycled paper is environmentally preferable to that produced from virgin pulp. This is based, firstly, on the false assumption that there is a shortage of trees for making paper, and that the paper industry is responsible for destruction of tropical rain forests. There is not a shortage of trees for making paper - it is a farmed crop, in much the same way as grain is, although over a much longer time-scale. Secondly,... Read more
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The Importance of Good Communication
04/03/2011 09:50:17Wayne passed me an article this week he saw in the January issue of MPS - Medical Protection Society.
" In a world of constant, instant communications it is surprising how frequently breakdowns in communication occur. Many will be minor misunderstandings, but some can have a devastating impact on the people involved.
The importance of good communication is evident in studies that show that up to 70% of litigation is related to poor communication, where the patient often feels th... Read more
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Phase 2 Complete But Many More Phases To Go
01/03/2011 11:49:17Phase 2 is complete on the basis that the Login facility works so clients can now register and make use of the information we have. Each hospital can now see all the categories they use and order any they are short of on-line. 70% of hospitals have also got the discharge information cards they use listed as a pdf which they can print off direct from the web site. These print offs will after Phase 3 be formatted to A4 but at the moment they are as the actual cards are.
there are navigat... Read more
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Happy Seasiders
24/02/2011 15:20:23Well this has got to be the best time to be a Blackpool supporter. After beating Spurs 3 - 1 at home on Tuesday night the majority of staff here are well chuffed. Apart from one, Kate our proof reader who is....... you guessed it a Spurs fan. Well they might be able to go to the San Siro and beat AC Milan but coming to Bloomfield road if a different kettle of fish, and so it turned out.
Nevermind Kate but look out in May if we turn you over and do a Liverpool to you. Another 3 points wi... Read more
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Thank you for the huge team effort
21/02/2011 15:19:21Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to say a huge" thank you" for the team effort in sorting out the racks and cards for the two new hospital sites at Pinderfield and Pontefract - nice to see the old BOE team work is still there!
All the cards have been delivered today ready for the opening and receiving of patients at the new sites on Friday and Saturday - a thanks to you all too from Jaine Hart who has been involved in the painful development of the new cards for both sit... Read more
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New ASYST Advert Hits The Printing Press
17/02/2011 10:58:07Well within 2 weeks of seeing the design ideas of several companies for a new advertising campaign for the ASYST call centre, the printers are busy getting the new advert onto our cards.
We are fitting out the two brand new PFI hospitals in Pontyfract and Pinderfields. A huge job which will take 21 of our new anti-microbial racks, yes even our racks are anti-microbial now. This means any germs that find their way onto our racks or cards will be dead within 2 hours and not sit festeri... Read more
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BOE ASYST award design contract
14/02/2011 09:31:04Last week saw us decide on the design company that would develop our new Advertising campaign. Several companies came along and pitched for the business and the successful candidate was
Geminus Design Ltd / Lisa Wilkinson lisa@geminusdesignlimited.co.uk
The designs submitted by all candidates were all of exceptional quality and the final decision was indeed quite tough.
We spent a fair amount of time deliberating over the various designs, and it was a real struggle to get i... Read more
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ASYST More than just a Claims Company - Why ?
11/02/2011 10:40:53Asyst is a different kind of claims company because the income that it generates finances BOE Medical Publishing limited, enabling BOE to provide resources and funding direct to hospitals helping to reduce clinical risk. BOE/Asyst provides a service to over 230+ hospitals around the UK. Since 1991 we have provided Accident and Emergency units with a range of post treatment information cards that cover a variety of injuries and ailments facing Emergency departments. We produce the clinical ... Read more
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ManFlu - It's out there and very real
04/02/2011 13:36:14Now I should know having been laid up for the best part of this week with it. Isn't it just great how it comes along and gets you just when you least need it to.
One week a year I let the wife out to go and play with her friends and that week I get slammed with Manflu. However all was not lost, There were still my two boys (15 & 14)to nurse me through the sleepless nights and constant fevers. Yeah right, lets put it this way I don't think medical school will be their next move.
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The First Solicitor to Contact You After an Accident May be Batting for Both Sides
19/01/2011 16:35:52You’ve recently had an accident. Suddenly your phone rings and a friendly voice asks you if they can help. You probably need some advice so you agree, but what you do not realise is that the friendly voice is a representative from an insurance companies panel of solicitors. There were over 250,000 car accidents last year where injuries were sustained and insurance companies want to gain control of this market. Did you know that they have set up a multi-million pound business ‘managing ac... Read more
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Picture of the Day
18/01/2011 11:27:33This is the picture of the winning owner receiving his prize and although our employee of the year Pauline is in the photo she only has eyes for the streaker who is out of shot !!!!
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BOE Xmas Party & Employee of the Year
05/01/2011 14:47:20Each year I am faced with the same problem of coming up with a venue for our Christmas Party that suits everyone. This year after consulting with the staff on mass decided to book Belle Vue Dog Track. So we all took ourselves of to Manchester and had a very enjoyable time. I think everybody had some sort of winner while we were there, except that is Wayne who never got near with any bet.
The surprise of the trip was the unveiling of our Employee of the Year. This was Pauline Wildon who... Read more
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To PFI or not to PFI - Like we had any choice !
14/12/2010 15:59:07Private Finance Initiative (PFI) created by the Australians to allow Public-Private Partnerships that can create a procurement method which secures private funding for public institutions in return for part privatisation.
A very controversial method of getting big brand spanking new hospitals built without having the set up costs coming out of the government coffers but being financed by the private sector.
Maintenance and service contracts are then given out and over the next 25... Read more
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BOE Supply Trauma Team with New Uniforms
07/12/2010 09:26:362010 saw BOE expand its NHS funding to benefit our first hospital with new uniforms for each member of the Trauma team. Good Hope hospital took delivery in May of 4 sets of tunics and trousers for each member of staff. This was a new area for BOE but as with all our hospital clients we are there to provide solutions. We were told that there was no budget for new uniforms but they were in desperate need to be replaced. Consequently we looked at the benefits package we provide Good Hope each ... Read more
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Frost -10 but still not cold enough for my Ollie
06/12/2010 09:29:31Well another week end gone and no let up with the weather. Although it has been very hit and miss in Blackpool. Even though we have had very little if any snow it was cold enough to postpone the big match Blackpool v Manchester United on Friday afternoon for it to be positively mild come Saturday tea time. Sunday morning brought a bit of frost back but by the afternoon it had melted. However come this morning and it was picture postcard winter wonderland everywhere.
I am out most morni... Read more
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Regional Managers - Our Northern RMs not stopped by a bit of snow
01/12/2010 09:02:21Well the weather has certainly come in this week but our hardy RMs have still have to service our hospitals.
Karen - Not daunted by a bit of snow made her way down to Birmingham and Stoke Mandeville to deliver essential supplies as they were running short of pink pens that write black.
Julie - Not to be outdone she looked at her area and decided the worst hit area just had to be visited. So off up to the North East she went, in her 4x4 to deliver some much needed chocolate biscuit... Read more
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1 Year On
29/11/2010 08:48:05We have been printing "in-house" for 12 months now using our 2 Xerox 700 DocuColour Printers.
Over this time we have produced over 2 Million Patient Information Leaflets and over 1,000 handbooks for our clients up and down the country.
Since we have brought the printing in-house we have improved significantly on our lead times, with 95% of orders being dispatched within 36 hours of receipt of orders, with 70% going next day to our hospitals.
We also have significantly improv... Read more
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Welcome to the BOE family
23/11/2010 16:01:52Over the last couple of months we have seen a number of hospitals take delivery of their new Patient Information Discharge Cards. Welcome to:
Wexham Park Hospital Heatherwood Hospital Barnet General Hospital Chase Farm Hospital The Children's Hospital Lewisham John Coupland Hospital St Peters Hospital
All have recently had our systems installed and are now part of the BOE family which continues to be the biggest supplier of bespoke Post Treatment Information Cards in the Un... Read more
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BOE continues to lead the way in the production of anti-microbial paper
18/11/2010 13:42:06We took delivery last week of our second batch of Anti-Microbial paper, 5 tons of the stuff and by the sounds of the huffing and puffing I've heard today, all that silver ion technology must make it weigh even more than normal paper. All our card and paper is now protected in this way which means all our clients are too.
Did you know that bacteria such as MRSA can live on paper for 32 weeks - well it won't last 2 hours on our paper !
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How have the Regional Managers coped today
17/11/2010 16:18:50Middle of the week and the weather is foul, wet, windy and probably dark when my team set out from their warm humble abodes to get to their hospitals for their regular visit. According to our diary Karen is calling in on Bedford, Julie is blessing Kidderminster and Redditch with her presence. Peter and Nyla will be cover some hospitals in the south but are not on the diary. So how about you all letting us know how your day went and sharing one or some of your experiences of the day.....Read more
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Phase 1 of our new look Web Site is here
16/11/2010 09:46:38Welcome to our new look web site which we have been wanting to launch for the best part of 2010. You are looking at phase 1 which gets rid of our holding page and replaces it with the front end information side of the web site.
Have a look around and let me know what you think - post your reply in the blog.
Phase 2 will bring in the ability to look at information cards for each hospital, re-order them on-line and eventually print out straight off the web site.
However ther... Read more
