Private hospital upgrades beds to new versatile model to ensure high-quality care for its patients
Spire Leeds Hospital has upgraded 65 of its hospital beds to mark the final stage of its plans to replace its previous beds with a…
Care home residents benefit from power-assisted baths with variable height functionality
Gainsborough Specialist Bathrooms has donated five power-assisted baths to the Headingley Hall care home and provided some funding so that residents can benefit from unique…
How toileting technology can help people living with MS
According to assistive toileting specialist Closomat, an increasing number of people with MS are turning to toileting technology to help them remain independent for as…
Disabled children participate in the joy of sport with inclusive sports sessions
A special loan for business startups is helping two social entrepreneurs share the joy of sport with people who would usually miss out because of…
Amputee bonds with son with innovative 3D printed bionic hand
For 21 years, Danny Florence has lived with one hand. But when he became a father, he decided to apply for an Open Bionics Hero…
Care home residents benefit from luxurious assistive patient transfer bath
Care home housing charity Abbeyfield has selected assistive bathing specialist Reval to improve its care home bathroom environments with spa therapy assisted bathing for the…
Wheelchair globe-trotters discuss the barriers they face whilst travelling
Two globe-trotting wheelchair users have spoken out on the difficulties they regularly face while travelling and called on industries, including rail and aviation, to do…
Generous mobility aid donation lifts patient’s spirits
Kerry Wloskowicz, of the Harrow Community Palliative Care Team, with the newly installed stairlift in Tixie’s home A Community Palliative Care Team in Harrow has…
DIY SOS gives disabled Karis and Bromsgrove family almighty lift
Flagship BBC TV programme DIY SOS has ensured wheelchair-user Karis Lane can avoid going into care by fitting a pioneering Stiltz home lift in her…
Modern care home receives 46 new overhead hoist systems to meet residents’ needs
The newly-built St Peters House Care Home in the Orkney Islands has received 46 overhead hoist systems from healthcare equipment supplier Innova Care Concepts to…