In order to provide chemotherapy treatment to patients more quickly, the National Health Service (NHS) from the UK is embarking on a new drone delivery trial for the Isle of Wight.
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Some of the drugs used for chemotherapy they have a duration extremely short shelf life, sometimes only 24 hours. This poses problems for some isolated hospitals when they cannot be manufactured locally. To alleviate this problem, the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight will soon be able to benefit from the delivery of chemotherapy drugs directly by drone.
Currently, it is mandatory to make a four-hour round trip by car and by ferry to access the nearest hospital pharmacy offering the treatment. It’s the National Health Service (NHS), the British public health system, which decided to set up a trial with a drone of the Apian company. The medications will leave from Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth and will be delivered to St. Mary’s Hospitalthe only hospital on this island of 140,000 inhabitants.
Delivery in just 30 minutes
Thanks to this drone, which will operate autonomously, the delivery will take only 30 minutes, instead of the four hours so far, reducing at the same time the pollution created by travel. Doctors will be able to order drugs for same-day treatment. It is thus part of the NHS project to achieve the carbon neutrality by 2040.
The announcement comes as the NHS celebrates its 74e anniversary. The first tests are planned in the next weeks “, then will be extended to the Northumbria hospital cluster, located in the counties of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear in the north of England.
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