The Specials Laboratory, a manufacturer of unlicensed medicines, has chosen the Ultimate Platinum system from Episys to fulfil its increasing over-labelling needs.
Paul Townsend, technical manager at the Specials Laboratory, said: 'With our old labelling system, we had issues with both the approvals and layout processes, and even slight changes such as margin adjustments meant going through a whole new design and approval process.
'Not only did this become too restrictive, it was also highly time consuming,' he added.
Offering its over-labelling service to an increasing number of customers in hospitals, the company found the whole system of label design and approval to be complex.
However, on discovering the Ultimate Platinum system and its approvals modules, the company recognised its benefits.
In addition, the BNF module has helped the Specials Laboratory to ensure that it keeps up to date with the latest labelling legislation.
The Episys approvals module sends notifications once the label has been designed and added to the approval process.
The person in charge then gets an email notification informing that there is a change waiting to be authorised, and once that authorisation has taken place the user gets a notification to say that the label is ready for use and can be printed.
This is designed to eliminate operator error, as unapproved labels simply cannot be printed or used.
Episys claims that its Ultimate Platinum solution is able to meet the demands of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Containing all the features of Ultimate Gold, the product offers enhanced security, providing extensive password control and full auditing of every activity and event within the system, including the creation and printing of worksheets.
Townsend said: 'One of the other advantages of our over-labelling service is that we can purchase a large amount of stock for each specific customer.
'The stock is then labelled with the customer requirements and then we hold that stock on our shelves.
'The customers can then call off what stock they require at any one time for delivery within 24 hours,' he added.
