The financial advantages of these strategies can be seen in the examples below. They show how our system works at two of our contracted hospitals. Whilst working environments vary hugely from hospital to hospital it is clear that our tailored system works for both of the hospitals.

Graph 1 shows how the cost of the perfusion workforce varies with the clinical caseload at one of our contracted NHS hospitals.

Senior hospital management will find the budget easier to control as the monthly charges are definitive and include emergency work, overtime (salaried perfusionist only, the company does not charge overtime), on call, etc. This will relate directly to the amount of work carried out during that period.

Graph 2 shows the overall financial impact London Perfusion Science has had since it became the fully contracted provider of Perfusion services for the Hospital in April 2004.

Graph 3 shows how the pricing system translates to another one of our contracted hospitals, which as a private hospital presents a completely different set of workforce requirements. Even though the

caseload is more inconsistent and organised at shorter notice, good communication and availability systems mean that this is managed cost effectively from both a hospital and company standpoint.