New £5 Million State Of The Art Luxury Care Centre Chooses BaKare Beds
Plympton based nursing bed supplier, BaKare Beds Ltd, has recently been selected to supply the Lincombe Manor Care Centre in Torquay for its prestigious new 49 bed development. With BaKare Beds employing 22 people, and Lincombe Manor handpicking a highly skilled team of professional carers and nurses, this is great news for the local economy. With BaKare’s distinction for high …
Why Use Low Beds?
Recent figures show that of 45,000 people aged over 65 years within one local authority, just over 1 in 3 will fall, 1 in 20 will attend hospital as a result and 1 in 40 will sustain a fracture. The average cost to health (NHS) and social care of a single hip fracture is £30,000. Lows Beds To Reduce The …
Nursing Bed Side Rails, Safety and the Law
Introduction Bed side rails, also referred to as cot-sides, safety sides, and bed guards, are used extensively in the health and social care sectors to protect vulnerable people from falling out of bed and injuring themselves. They usually achieve this very successfully. However, there continues to be reports of entrapment of bed occupants, which have included fatalities of children and …
