Barcodes are being printed on breast implants and other medical items for patient safety reasons.
The Department of Health initiative is to avoid future scandals like the PIP breast implant scare of 2010.
Problems arose tracing nearly 50,000 British women who had been fitted with the faulty silicone implants.
The new system is intended to record every medicine and implant given to patients by scanning the product packet and the patient's identity wristband.