Resources
Zebra’s Healthcare Vertical Marketing Team has compiled a Resources Library to help healthcare professionals understand and comply with the new legislation and to ensure maximum patient safety through the implementation of patient ID and patient wristband solutions.
National Patients Safety Agency
- The NPSA’s Safer Practice Notice on the New Legislation, Effective July 18th 2008
This Safer Practice Notice sets out the action to be taken by the NHS to ensure that wristbands are standardised to improve patient safety. (PDF, 170 KB)
Download the NPSA’s Safer Practice Notice on the New Legislation - The NPSA’s Guide to Implementing Standard Wristbands
This guidance to the NHS in England and Wales has been developed in consultation with the NHS Purchasing and Supplies Agency and Welsh Health Supplies and has benefited from consultation with NHS staff and suppliers from the wristband industry. (PDF, 53.2 KB)
Download the NPSA’s Guide to Implementing Standard Wristbands
Zebra Product Reports
- Zebra Z-Band Durability Report
This document details the laboratory testing completed on Zebra Z-Band Direct Thermal Wristbands, featuring Zebra’s patent-pending antimicrobial coating. Independent laboratories and the Zebra Technologies Supplies R&D Team tested the wristbands to ensure that they met Zebra’s high standards for image durability, scannability and comfort. The test evaluated durability and potential to cause skin irritation. (PDF, 60.2 KB)
Download the Zebra Z-Band Durability Report - Zebra Z-Band Antimicrobial Coating Report
This document details the laboratory testing completed on Zebra Z-Band Direct Thermal Wristbands, featuring Zebra’s patent-pending antimicrobial coating. An independent laboratory tested the wristbands to evaluate the antimicrobial activity on the bands over a period of time. (PDF, 446 KB)
Download the Zebra Z-Band Antimicrobial Coating Report - Zebra’s Report on Tips to Optimise the Durability of Z-Band Direct Therma
l Wristbands
Optimum scanning performance and image durability are important, especially when looking at the narrow 5 mil subset barcodes that are printed on today’s hospital wristbands. Zebra’s R&D Team tested the durability of images and text printed onto its Z-Band Direct and Z-Band QuickClip products, to determine how the durability of these products can be optimised. (PDF, 58.5 KB)
Download Zebra’s Report on Tips to Optimise the Durability of Z-Band Direct
Thermal Wristbands
