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Future Health Technologies Ltd

Medical Engineering

Description and aims

Future Health Technologies having successfully stored and manage in excess of 10,000 samples since 2003 pride themselves on offering parents a transparent and high quality service. The cryo-preservation and storage of stem cells is a costly exercise and therefore ways of reducing operation costs and developing new storage systems are essential to Future Health’s commitment to insuring this procedure is affordable to all people.

About Future Health Technologies Ltd

Future Health Technologies are a Nottingham based Stem Cell storage facility. They offer a completely safe, painless and non-invasive umbilical cord blood collection process and are the first and oldest accredited private cord blood stem cell bank in the UK.

How the project is being undertaken

The company heard about the expertise, facilities and resources available within the School of Biomedical Sciences through the Schools business manager. After working on smaller projects and developments with Future Health the Medical Engineering Unit was asked to evaluate and cost to produce Future Health’s own racking and container storage system.

The work undertaken includes:

Commissioning Tooling
Sourcing and contracting production of containers. 10,000 units per year.
Insuring all work is manufactured under ISO accreditations ISO9001:2000

Impacts and benefits
  • Future Health now control their storage to suite their own individual needs rather than the market racking systems controlling them.
  • The new racking and storage systems have achieved a 10% saving on costs.
  • Quality and reliability of the products have improved reducing container failures.
  • Response time in orders and problems has been reduced.
  • Local SME’s manufacture their containers.
For more information about the project

If you would like to hear more about this project, please contact Bryan Morris, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham:
Email: bryan.morris@nottingham.ac.uk
Telephone: 0115 8230051.

University

The University of Nottingham

Academic Lead

Bryan Morris

Medical Engineering Unit

Contact

Bryan Morris

0115 8230051

Website

Future Health