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Pilot business case

Can Sitora close medicines loops, prevent avoidable supply and recover measurable NHS resource safely?

The 20-week pilot tests three distinct products with one evidence standard: baseline first, governed action second, verified outcome last.

Duration20 weeks

Full evaluation cycle

Mobilise, baseline, intervene and verify.
Products3

Separate hypotheses

Medication continuity, avoidable supply and pathway resource use.
Sites1 + network

Acute + community

Enough scope to test cross-boundary medicines flows.
EndpointDecision

Scale / modify / stop

No automatic assumption of success.
Why Sitora exists

Existing systems hold data. Sitora tests whether the next action is owned and closed.

Current environment

Medication changes, repeat authorisations, dispensing, administration and pathway activity can sit across different systems and organisations. Visibility does not guarantee that downstream work is complete.

Proposed layer

Sitora creates accountable signals and events around those systems, routes action to the right professional and records whether the loop, supply decision or resource opportunity was actually resolved.

Three workstreams

Three products. Three different outcomes.

Pilot stream

Medicine Loop

Close medication changes across organisations.

View scope and outcomes

Population: Hospital discharge and other cross-setting changes affecting GP, pharmacy, care-home or community workflows.

Primary outcomes: Open-loop rate, time-to-reconcile, downstream acknowledgements, discrepancies resolved, obsolete supply prevented and safety.

Pilot stream

WasteGuard

Prevent repeat supply that may no longer be required.

View scope and outcomes

Population: Selected repeat-medicine cohorts where cumulative supply, stock or change history can be assessed safely.

Primary outcomes: Reviews triggered, supplies deferred, dispensing outcome, intervention workload, safety and verified cost avoidance.

Pilot stream

Medicines Resource Intelligence

Identify and verify lower-resource clinically appropriate pathways.

View scope and outcomes

Population: Selected high-volume or resource-intensive injectable, SACT or preparation pathways.

Primary outcomes: Pharmacy/nursing minutes, chair or bed capacity, unused doses, pathway cost, patient impact and safety.

Delivery

Shadow mode before live change.

0-4 weeks

Mobilise

Confirm sponsor, sites, governance, data flows, safety boundaries and baseline definitions.

5-8 weeks

Baseline

Measure cross-setting medication discrepancies, repeat-supply signals, pathway resource use and workload.

9-16 weeks

Intervene

Run controlled, human-reviewed workflows in shadow mode first, then approved live use.

17-20 weeks

Evaluate

Verify closure, avoided supply, resource recovery, safety and net operational effect.

Success

What would justify scale?

  • Medicine Loop: fewer unresolved cross-setting discrepancies and faster safe closure.
  • WasteGuard: avoidable dispensing prevented without missed essential supply.
  • Resource Intelligence: observed reusable capacity or validated cost effect.
  • Across all three: manageable workload, traceable outcomes and no unacceptable safety deterioration.
Verification rule

Different benefits stay separate.

Clinical discrepancy resolution, cash release, cost avoidance and capacity release are not interchangeable. Each product keeps its own denominator and outcome definition.

Governance

Designed around controlled deployment.

Exact regulatory applicability depends on intended use and deployment architecture.

Clinical safety

Named clinical leadership, hazard logging, escalation rules, human review and no autonomous prescribing changes.

Information governance

DPIA, data-flow mapping, minimisation, role-based access, provenance and audit logging.

Technical assurance

Read-only integration first, visible source conflicts, no silent overwrite and explicit acknowledgement states.

Finance and evaluation

Pre-agreed outcomes and finance validation before any cash-releasing claim is reported.

Approval ask

What the NHS partner would approve.

  • 20-week controlled medicines pilot
  • One acute provider plus selected GP/pharmacy/care partners
  • Named clinical, pharmacy, digital, IG, finance and evaluation leads
  • Minimum agreed data access
  • Shadow-mode validation before live workflow intervention
  • Pre-agreed Scale / Modify / Stop thresholds
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Technical implementation

The technical plan defines source systems, minimum data, event ownership, acknowledgement states, audit requirements and deployment gates.

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