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Healthcare equipment needed urgently for new patient.. sound familiar?
We've heard this story so many times before from OT's we speak to... so much that we made it into a typical Friday afternoon timeline! 1.  A new patient transfer, with quite specific needs.... You need a specialist chair that can...
Early Mobilisation · occupational therapists · physiotherapists · rehabilitation · rent tilt table · tilt table · tilt table test · tilt table to rent ·
Tilt tables used in early mobilisation
Tilt table - common uses An electric tilt table’s primary use is to slowly bring a patient into a progressively upright standing position. A vital piece of physio equipment, the tilting table adjusts the body position from horizontal to vertical to...
Early Mobilisation · LiveChat · servicing · Workshop ·
After care with Caremed Alrick
Here at Caremed we want you to value the products you buy or rent from us as much as we do.  So part of that is offering you aftersales service 24/7, LiveChat support online and our regular service offering.  This...
care homes · Intensive Care · mattresses ·
The possibilities are Endless for Mental Health Care
We are very proud of our Endless bed range, quality built, technologically advanced and with complete comfort and care in mind – and not a tower insight!  Ideally suited for supporting health care professionals in their care for vulnerable mental...
Rental and refurbished stock
Here at CareMed we realise that some professionals may well want to try before they buy, or they may have a patient with short term needs, or even a patient with specific needs that won’t be in their ward/hospital for...
Early Mobilisation · Intensive Care · Rental · Sertain · Sertain Chair ·
The chair you can be SERTAIN™ of….
The SERTAIN™ chair is able to lay a patient 100% flat if necessary, but also allows for early mobilisation. The Sertain™ was designed in conjunction with Critical Care, Trauma and Rehab Professionals, as a platform for both critical care and early...
Early Mobilisation · Intensive Care · Rental ·
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. What is the...
profiling beds ·
Seating 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...
care chair · care homes · seating · seating assessments · seating solutions ·
Care chair specialist seating assessments
Book a specialist seating assessment for your residents Frail elderly residents in long term care often have complex seating needs which cannot be supported with standard armchairs. The Caremed® team has many years of experience providing specialist seating assessments and...
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...
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...
mattress auditing ·
Why audit mattresses in care homes and the NHS?
We are often asked if it is really worth auditing mattresses... “Our mattresses are regularly cleaned”“We have no dirty mattresses in here”“I am sure we keep an eye on them ourselves” Mattress auditing is so important - both to homes...
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...
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...
Specialist Medical Seating Hire
Caremed Alrick has a specific mission for our hire division: “Accurately specified, impeccably clean, rapidly deployed equipment”, on a true 7 day service, to UK hospitals, in the areas of seating, showering / toileting, and early mobilisation.Our hire range now...
TX30 High Dependency Chair for Long Term Care
This chair has both manual tilt-in-space of 40°and manual legrest operation with includes adjustable negative legrest up to 30°. With vertically removable arms for easy hoist access or side transfer the seat depth is adjustable from 17”- 20” with 3 seat...
24/7 Equipment Replacement for Care Home groups
Caremed has expanded its 24/7 infrastructure, with the opening of a new storage depot in Coventry, specifically for bolstering our round the clock service to UK care home groups.To date, we’ve never refused or turned down a request for a...