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Reducing Risk and Improving Care: Why Mobile Hoists for Care Homes are Essential
Reducing risk and improving care: Why mobile hoists for care homes are essential in modern care settings In care settings across the UK, the pressure to deliver safe, effective, and dignified care has never been greater. With an ageing population, increasingly complex...
Streamlining Moving and Handling Equipment Procurement for Occupational Therapists
Streamlining moving and handling equipment procurement for Occupational Therapists Occupational Therapists play a vital role in helping persons with disabilities and/or mobility challenges maintain independence and safety. A key part of the role of an OT involves...
The Impact of Delays in Specialist Moving and Handling Equipment Procurement
The impact of delays in specialist moving and handling equipment procurement Delays in obtaining the right moving and handling equipment after specification can have significant implications for patients, carers, healthcare professionals, and service providers. The...
NopaC Mobility Ceases Trading – Support for Organisations Seeking Ongoing Equipment and Servicing
NopaC Mobility has ceased trading, leaving many organisations seeking clarity around ongoing equipment servicing and support. For hospitals, local authorities, care homes, specialist education settings, and private clients who previously worked with NopaC Mobility,...
Bespoke Colour-Matched GH3 Ceiling Hoist in a Private Home Cinema
Bespoke Colour-Matched GH3 Ceiling Hoist in a Private Home Cinema This project involved the installation of a ceiling track hoist system within a private home, in a purpose-designed home cinema room created for a young person with complex mobility needs and their...
Latest Articles.
How to make your school more accessible to disabled students – Part 1
How to make your school more accessible to disabled students - Part 1 - Legislation and general advice In this blog we will be looking at the question ‘How can I make my school accessible to disabled students’. Many schools when faced with the challenge of looking...
Sling Tagging System
Sling Tagging System - Hoist with confidence How do i know my slings are safe to use?? - This is a common question when moving and handling procedures are to be carried out. The sling inspection and tagging process we use will ensure that your slings are safe to use...
Featured Product – Zurich double profiling bed
Zurich Double Profiling Bed Double profiling beds are a common solution for those who need a nursing bed but do not wish to be split from their partner. With two mattress platforms acting independently, each user can control the action of the bed without affecting the...
Why fit a Changing Places in a Hospital
The importance of Changing Places Over a quarter of a million severely disabled people in the UK, including those with profound and multiple learning disabilities, don’t have access to public toilet facilities that meet their needs. As a result, these people can’t...
The Importance of a Moving and Handling Plan
Moving and handling activities Moving and handling plans are implemented to reduce the risk of injury to staff and patients using patient handling equipment. Moving and handling activities are a key part of carers everyday routine within the health and social care...
What to do if your carers don’t really care!
Caring Practices As a care home manager you're responsible for ensuring that good caring practices are set in your organisation. Unfortunately we hear many nursing home owners speak of tearing their hair our because they simply cant make training stick with their...
Featured Product – Pressalit Height Adjustable Basin
Pressalit Height Adjustable Basin Height adjustable wash hand basins (also known as a rise and fall wash hand basin) are specifically designed to meet the needs of wheelchair users. A height adjustment feature means that in multi use environments both wheelchair and...
Modern ceiling hoists saving time and improving safety
Modern ceiling hoists for disabled persons Today’s modern ceiling hoists offer far more than just a lift mounted on a track. There are many innovative features bringing massive benefits to both patients and carer staff alike. In this Blog we will cover just 3 features...
Why fit a Changing Places in a Zoo
The importance of Changing Places Over a quarter of a million severely disabled people in the UK, including those with profound and multiple learning disabilities, don’t have access to public toilet facilities that meet their needs. As a result, these people can’t...
Concerned about what can go wrong during hoisting?
Don't run the risk of injury There are a multitude of things that can potentially go wrong during a hoisting procedure. The consequences of incidents that occur during hoisting very often include injury to both the patient and carer staff. Therefore it is key that...
How to prevent hoist breakdowns in one easy step
Prevent breakdowns The well planned routine servicing and preventive maintenance of moving and handling equipment is essential to reduce the chance of failure, breakdowns and potential accidents. Assessing the condition and also the wear of essential components before...
Why fit a Changing Places in a Shopping Centre
The importance of Changing Places Over a quarter of a million severely disabled people in the UK, including those with profound and multiple learning disabilities, don’t have access to public toilet facilities that meet their needs. As a result, these people can’t...
3 Reasons why the Guldmann GH3 hoist is the right choice
The Guldmann GH3 overhead hoist The GH3 ceiling hoist is a lifting module that is user-friendly and powerful enough to handle lifting and moving procedures in almost all professional care settings. The lifting module is easy to operate and helps make lifting and...
Reduce the chances of musculoskeletal disorders with staff
Safe moving and handling If you work in a health and social care setting then it’s likely that you spend a significant amount of your time moving and handling residents, patients and service users. Whether you’re using specialist equipment, such as hoists and EPBs, or...
GH3 ceiling hoist – Designed for the toughest environments
Advanced technology The Guldmann GH3 hoist is a powerful ceiling hoist designed to operate in the toughest environments. Advanced digital technology combined with a constant charge system, constantly monitors the usage of the hoist, ensuring batteries are maintained...
Featured Product – Guldmann GH3 ceiling hoist
Patient Hoists - GH3 hoist, designed for the toughest environments The GH3 ceiling hoist is a stationary lifting module that is user-friendly and powerful enough to handle lifting and moving procedures in almost all professional care settings. The lifting module is...
Peace of mind with new lifetime battery warranty
Ceiling hoist solutions - New lifetime battery warranty 01/03/2019 Multicare Medical Ltd are pleased to announce the introduction of a LIFETIME BATTERY WARRANTY for GH3 hoists purchased after 1st March 2019. Director, Sam Wheatcroft explained that "we were constantly...
Why fit a Changing Places room in an airport?
The importance of Changing Places Over a quarter of a million severely disabled people in the UK, including those with profound and multiple learning disabilities, don’t have access to public hygiene or changing facilities that meet their needs. As a result, these...
Ceiling hoist systems – Improving the working environment
Effective lifting and moving - Improving the working environment A ceiling-mounted hoist system is often the ideal and most effective way to lift and move people. Moving with a ceiling track hoist normally only requires one member of staff, thus freeing up others for...
Remove the risk of failure or breakdowns
Importance of routine servicing The well planned routine servicing and preventive maintenance of moving and handling equipment is essential to reduce the chance of failure, breakdowns and potential accidents. Assessing the condition and wear of essential components...
Effective lifting and moving of patients on ICU wards
Effective lifting and moving on ICU wards in hospitals Staff on intensive care wards are regularly confronted by urgent, unpredictable work situations, with high risk of undesirable outcomes for the patient and of work-related injuries for the care staff. A...
Changing Places – The benefits for families
Changing Places benefits for disabled persons and their families Changing Places offer many benefits for disabled people and their families. While having access to a Changing Places toilet is great for people with disabilities, what may not have been considered is the...
Why fit a Changing Places in a Library?
The importance of Changing Places Over a quarter of a million severely disabled people in the UK, including those with profound and multiple learning disabilities, don’t have access to public toilet facilities that meet their needs. As a result, these people can’t...
How heavy do you think is really super heavy?
How heavy do you think is really super heavy? Some Startling Statistics to get you thinking!! ✔ Juan Pedro Franco, 33, weighed a shocking 93 stone (595kg) by his mid-20's, but has now lost over half of his own body weight!! (641 lb or 45 st – the equivalent of 40...
NopaC Mobility Ceases Trading – Support for Organisations Seeking Ongoing Equipment and Servicing
NopaC Mobility has ceased trading, leaving many organisations seeking clarity around ongoing equipment servicing and support. For hospitals, local authorities, care homes, specialist education settings, and private clients who previously worked with NopaC Mobility,...
Bespoke Colour-Matched GH3 Ceiling Hoist in a Private Home Cinema
Bespoke Colour-Matched GH3 Ceiling Hoist in a Private Home Cinema This project involved the installation of a ceiling track hoist system within a private home, in a purpose-designed home cinema room created for a young person with complex mobility needs and their...
