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Impeccably Clean, Accurately Specified, Rapidly Deployed Rental Equipment for Intensive Care
Caremed Alrick serves NHS and Private Hospitals and Care Homes throughout the UK with equipment that helps speed up Early Mobilisation and reduce Length of Stay. Why bother hiring equipment? Often, our services are employed because rental of specialist items helps...
Take a break with Caremed!
At Caremed Alrick, long before the current crisis hit, we have seen day and night, how hospital and care home staff work unselfishly round the clock to improve lives, save lives and provide compassion, care and dignity to their patients...
A safe system of care for older adults services
When equipping a mental health older adults service, where there are frail and vulnerable persons who are at risk of bed falls, here is a simple system of care designed to make life easier for all involved. Mental Health Older...
Fasttrack Seating for Intensive Care Units
Working with our colleagues at Careleda, we’ve produced a simplified range of mobilisation chairs, to expedite delivery during this crisis; by focusing on a limited number of models, we are able to reduce lead times, which is critical for the...
Keeping Clients Safe
Caremed is equipped with both the Medi9 fogging system and the hygiena ATP swab test system and are willing to assist any facility, within, or outside the care sector with a thorough and effective decontamination process. Medi9 info: Medi9 is...
New format for our online catalogues
Have a look at our new online seating catalogue, in the new format here: Sertain Online Catalogue
Seated comfortably, in bed
Feedback from specialists in dementia care and older adults services led to the creation of the Alrick floor level beds, of which the EN7 is the latest iteration. Far more than just a “super-low bed”, though it is that, with...
Seating Assessments – meet Colin
If you have residents with complex needs, whose current seating provision could do with improving, read our quick guide here to our assessment service. Seating Assessment Service
New videos from Careleda – Promoting Early Mobilisation
Find out what a true clinical recliner can do in your ITU
Keeping Equipment Safe in Care Homes
We’ve prepared a quick guide to the regulations that cover the maintenance of equipment in the care home, make sure you’re covered. Quick Guide - Read Here
Simplicity is Safety in the Mental Health Older Adults setting
Working with mental health for older adults services has taught us that simplicity is safety. Without compromising on strength or functionality, our MHOA bed has a skeletal frame, concealed cabling and when raised up, all you’ll see beneath is free...
The Biggest Problems with Equipment Hire for Healthcare (and how you can fix them)
Hiring in specialist equipment can help care organisations reduce capital spend, overcome storage issues and deal with sporadic requirements, but it is not always straightforward. By asking hospitals and care homes what the biggest issues they encounter with hiring in...
Lunch and Learn | Falls Prevention
We’ve had great feedback from mental health trusts who’ve participated in the lunch and learn events we carried out in 2019, and the first half of January 2020. The events are offered throughout each year, subject to availability. 2020 is...
#CriticalCareSeating
We were recently challenged to describe Critical Care Seating within the 140 characters format, here we go… “Chairs enabling hoist free transfers from bed and used to assist early mobility tasks, i.e. sit-to-stand, reducing length of stay and the load...
Regular equipment servicing
Could your nursing home benefit from a thorough profiling bed and air mattress service? Ignoring equipment maintenance can be costly and risky. What are the reasons that this could be beneficial? Peace of mind, knowing that everyone (residents, staff and...
January 2020 - Stock Clearance Offers
Caremed is holding a huge 2020 demo stock clearance to make way for new lines and there is the opportunity to save £1000’s on some of the most popular seating, showering and rehab / early mobilisation items in our range....
Bariatric Seating Takes a Step Forwards (and Upwards)
   The newest Sertain™ Intensive Care Chair is the long awaited bariatric hi-lo chair with the following specification: 350KG Safe Working Load 700mm – 780mm seat width All of the usual ITU & Early Mobilisation features that you are familiar...
Mattress auditing – why bother?
We are often asked if it is really worth auditing mattresses, for reasons like: “Our mattresses are regularly cleaned”“We have no dirty mattresses in here”“I am sure we keep an eye on them ourselves”However, have a look at the gallery...
MHRA Registration
According to the government’s own advice: “If you place certain medical devices on the EU market you or your designated authorised representative must register with the competent authority (national health regulator) in the EU state where you have an office...
What is an EC Declaration of Conformity?
When purchasing medical equipment, amongst the many considerations should be whether the items being purchased have been built to the correct standards and relevant directives. An EC Declaration of Conformity, is a vital document that offers the buyer some assurances...
Save your back, make life easier with the Bed Mover Trolley
  The Bed Mover Trolley from Caremed Alrick is a handy way to move profiling beds when there are obstacles such as narrow doorways, corridors or confined spaces. Using a very stable winch to raise and lower the bed, and...