Maxim Global Sourcing partner with major healthcare player to help maintain patient care standards
(PRWEB UK) 17 July 2013 -- Often care homes can resemble mini clinics or even hospitals. UK care homes play a vital role in the community catering for people from all walks of life, in all states of health. From the slightly frail and infirm to the seriously ill, care homes must look after the whole spectrum.
As Channel 4 news reported in 2012, the UK suffers a shortage of adapted housing resulting in 1 in 5 people with spinal injuries being housed in elderly care homes.
The average layperson can only imagine the level of care, attention, adaptation and equipment that is required to look after someone with a serious spinal injury. Add that to the levels of equipment required to deal with the array of conditions some of the homes more elderly residents may have and the levels of equipment required soon mount up.
As with any environment where mobile equipment is being used and moved around, if that equipment is not manufactured to the highest standards and the users are not properly trained there is the potential for accident or injury. Furthermore all equipment must have safety features and guards in place to prevent the possibility for injury to either the care assistant, medical practitioner or the patient.
Hospital and care home beds have adjustable guards in place to prevent patients falling out. These guard rails need to be height adjustable and it is therefore essential that the mechanism is robust, reliable and durable.
Maxim have used their network of highly vetted world manufacturing partners to source high quality robust mechanisms that are now being used by major players within the healthcare market.
Paul Shiels, Maxim Industries Ltd, http://www.maximindustries.co.uk, 01204 478030, [email protected]
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