Integrated Asset Management For The NHS
Real Asset Management (RAM), formerly Britannia Software, is the UK’s leading provider of specialist IFRS compliant capital accounting and organisation-wide asset management software for use by Finance, IT, Estates and EBME Departments to provide a centralised solution whereby capital fixed assets, PC’s, estates and medical equipment can be tracked from the same register.
With over 200 NHS Trusts using RAM’s software, including 40 Foundation Trusts and a large number of NEP/SBS clients, Series4000 is an integrated and proven solution which incorporates every aspect of fixed asset and lease accounting, capital project and budgetary control, medical equipment management, estates management and asset tracking (bar-coding/RFID).
NHS clients include:




IFRS Compliant Capital Accounting Software
Real Asset Management’s (RAM) capital accounting software used by over 200 NHS Trusts, including 40 FTs is a proven solution enabling Trusts to continually close year end in compliance with IFRS and confidently meet auditor requirements.
Available to purchase via Buying Solutions, RAM’s NHS customers benefit not only from a fast track procurement route, but from a system that:
- Automatically calculates depreciation/capital charges and all reserve movements with supporting audit trail for IFRS compliancy.
- Generates month end journals automatically for upload into the Finance system.
- Assurance that the specialist IFRS capital accounting requirements of FT’s can be met.
- Enables the automated physical auditing of medical/IT equipment using barcodes/RFID and the latest PDA technology.
- Provides a centralised database of finance and operating leased assets in accordance with IFRS.
- Includes spreadsheet import tools to load asset revaluation data automatically.
- Improves analysis of capital commitments, spend and accruals by scheme against budget.
- Can be extended to meet the asset management requirements for Medical Equipment,
Estates and IT assets from a single integrated organisation-wide database.
Estates Management Software
Real Asset Management (RAM) provides a total solution designed to track all of the Estates Department's assets within a Trust, as well as to manage and report on all planned and reactive maintenance, both historical and current.
With NHS Estates Departments being forced to operate within ever tighter budgetary constraints, RAM's easy to use and functionally rich solution increases staff efficiency and reduces departmental costs.
Key features and benefits include:
- Planned and breakdown maintenance for the Estate Department’s assets – creation of automatic job tickets on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis, preventing maintenance work from being overlooked or unrecorded.
- Mobile job management using Wi-Fi, 3G and GPRS.
- Stock control and integrated purchase ordering.
- Management of maintenance costs and financial planning.
- Resource scheduling and job prioritisation.
- Web based fault reporting and helpdesk management, providing the Trust with complete traceability.
- Response time analysis.
Medical Equipment Management Software
Real Asset Management’s (RAM) integrated medical equipment maintenance software has been designed to track all of the medical equipment within the Trust, as well as to manage and report on all associated planned and un-planned maintenance, both historical and current.
In addition, its fully integrated web enabled helpdesk module provides staff on the wards with a simple to use and fully traceable call logging and job request facility.
Key features and benefits include:
- Medical equipment maintenance management.
- Asset verification – Medical Equipment Tracking.
- Planned and breakdown maintenance, both historical and current for medical equipment.
- User definable coding, descriptions, amounts and date fields.
- Batch equipment commissioning.
- Mobile job management using Wi-Fi, 3G and GPRS.
- Fully integrated stock control and order requisitioning.
- Equipment loan library.
- Resource scheduling and job prioritisation using visual calendars.
- Web based fault reporting/helpdesk.
- Response time analysis.
- Fully integrated with RAM's other Series4000 modules to satisfy EBME, Estates and Finance requirements and provide all departments within the Trust with one single asset register.