At night, the bed can be folded down and ready to use in seconds and offers
the same standard of comfort and convenience as a good quality conventional
divan bed.
Our high performance, heavy-duty 'WISKAWAY'® Wall Beds have an unbeatable service record, meet all current Health & Safety, Manual Handling and
Infection Control requirements and eliminate the need for ward staff to
trundle makeshift beds to and fro and make them up/unmake them each
evening/morning. This leads to substantial cost savings over time, including
reduced laundry bills, as well as various Health & Safety and Manual
Handling benefits.
Because ‘WISKAWAY’® Wall Beds are counterbalanced, they need to be fixed to
the wall.
The new Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, which
opened its doors in 2001, was the first of the new generation of
dedicated Children's Hospitals – [which now include the new Royal
Aberdeen Children's Hospital, the new Queen Elizabeth Children’s
Hospital in Glasgow, the new Children’s Hospital at the RVI in Newcastle,
the new Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, the new extended
Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, the new Children’s Hospital at
the QAH in Portsmouth and the new Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital in
Brighton] - to specify our 'WISKAWAY’®' Wall Beds, to provide overnight
accommodation for parents, right next to their children.
Some 120 'WISKAWAY’®' Wall Beds, mainly Vertical model 7500H, but also
some Horizontal 6000Hs were specified for the new Bristol Royal
Children’s Hospital and proved such a success that a further quantity of
'Horizontal' 'WISKAWAY’® 6000H Wall Beds was specified for the single
cubicles in the new extension, Ward 38, featured here, which opened in
the Spring of 2007. (This Ward also uses our ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Guest Beds, in
the multi-bedded bays).
A current requirement in Children's Hospitals is to
provide overnight accommodation for at least one parent, as near as possible
to the child's bed.
Various types of space-saving bed have been employed over the years for this
purpose, but the ultimate solution to the problem of where to put parents,
is a ‘WISKAWAY’® Wall Bed.
GP Care Systems are the country's leading supplier of wallbeds and related
furniture for Hospitals and Hospices.
Specifically designed for daily, heavy-duty use, GP Care Systems' range of
high performance, all-steel, Horizontal and Vertical 'WISKAWAY'® Wall Beds
for Hospitals and Hospices, are fully counterbalanced and fitted with
automatically opening and retracting legs, for safe, smooth and easy
operation.
They set completely new standards of safety, durability, comfort,
convenience and space-efficiency and are supplied, with a choice of
wipe-clean mattresses and complete with tough, compact, unobtrusive,
integral housings, in a wide range of attractive, finishes, including
wipe-clean MFC and Plastic Laminates as well as veneers. Matching
wardrobes/lockers and other (optional) complementary furniture are also
available.
‘WISKAWAY’® Wall beds come with a FULL 5 YEAR GUARANTEE. Single ‘WISKAWAY’®
Wall Beds will comfortably handle loads of up to 200Kg and doubles can
easily cope
with up to 400Kg.
'WISKAWAY'® Wall Beds are designed for heavy-duty use every night and can be
made-up and folded away, complete with all the bedding, including the
pillows, in literally seconds (in an emergency for instance). This leaves
the space taken up by the bed during the night free for use by patients,
visitors and staff and the area tidy and easy to keep clean, during the day.
Click on the arrows or numbers above to see pictures of our 'WISKAWAY'® 6000H Wall Bed, at the new Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
