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.
Kings College Hospital is a leading London Teaching Hospital with a
substantial Children’s ‘Hospital’ and, although many of the buildings are
old, a rolling refurbishment programme, combined with a number of new-build
projects, has resulted in modern, up-to-date facilities.
The Ward featured here, (originally called Mountbatten Ward, but now called
Ray of Sunshine Ward), was already using our ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Guest Beds for
putting up parents, but when this Ward was completely refurbished in 2008,
they upgraded to our Horizontal ‘WISKAWAY’® 6000H Wall Bed, with our
wipe-clean/waterproof, breathable, ‘FLEXICA’® mattresses - many of the beds
complete with various shapes and sizes of matching Top Storage Lockers,
depending on the available space. Our remit for this project was to supply
the beds together, where possible, with matching Top Storage Lockers, each
with one lockable compartment. It is a testament to our flexibility that we
were able to do just that, as illustrated in the pictures, despite the
relatively small quantities and the different configurations involved.
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 the Horizontal 'WISKAWAY'® 6000H Wall Beds and several of the different matching Top Storage Lockers, at King's College Hospital
