The ‘lite’ stuff – DeliverEASE Lite transforms 110 WNSWLHD hospital storerooms
Date published: 18 Jun 2025
Author: Celia Pozzecco
The DeliverEASE best-practice stock management framework has been implemented in 110 hospital storerooms across 40 rural, regional and remote Western NSW Local Health District (WNSWLHD) sites.
This follows a unique collaboration between HealthShare NSW (HSNSW) and WNSWLHD on a new implementation approach called DeliverEASE-Lite.
Based on a train-the-trainer approach, DeliverEASE Lite was developed as a way to ensure that all hospitals, no matter how small or isolated, could experience the benefits of DeliverEASE.
DeliverEASE Lite takes the core elements of DeliverEASE – including new stock management processes and principles, as well as digital tools and dashboards – and puts them in the hands of a local team of trained staff to manage LHD implementation, training and embedding.
Marianne Camper, Senior Operations Manager, Development and Delivery, leads the HSNSW team that developed and delivered the DeliverEASE program across NSW’s public hospitals.
Marianne said WNSWLHD was the perfect partner to trial the DeliverEASE Lite approach: covering more than 250,000km2 of land, the LHD has the state’s largest geographical footprint and some of the state’s most remote health facilities.
Marianne said DeliverEASE optimises processes from the point of receipt of goods at the hospital to the storeroom; it improves inventory visibility and management controls to deliver increased availability of stock and cost savings.
‘Essentially, the program is ensuring that WNSWLHD hospitals have the right quantity of medical consumables in the right place, at the right time.’
For WNSWLHD, key outcomes and benefits of the DeliverEASE Lite program include:
- Easier and more efficient ordering processes = time back to staff for patient care.
- Visibility of medical consumables data including usage, stock levels and stock locations across each storeroom, hospital and the whole district = informed decision making.
- All storerooms consistently organised with a new labelling system = simplified ordering for staff working across multiple wards/hospital sites.
- Updated and consolidated catalogues, and scan-at-shelf ordering = reduced time to place orders.
Main image caption: WNSWLHD’s local DeliverEASE team at Dubbo Hospital (L-R) Bonita Jameson, Gabrielle Nicholls, Jody Trickey, Samantha Murphy, Keren Davies, Jodie Spittles.
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