Whilst many of our Children’s Ward and Children’s Hospital customers use our award winning ‘WISKAWAY’® Visitor Wallbeds, or a combination of our high performance Visitor wall beds and guest beds, some Hospitals use only our ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbeds for all their Visitor bed requirements.
One such Hospital is UCLH in London, who are longstanding ‘GLIDEAWAY’® customers and use this model across a number of Children’s Wards.
Towards the end of 2019 we were approached by Children’s Ward T11, who had been using their 16 ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbeds daily for about 11 years and had a budget to replace them with new ones. But, it would be extremely unusual for ‘GLIDEAWAYS’® to need replacing after only 11 years’ service?
Following a visit to the Ward, it was clear that whilst a few beds did need some very minor repairs and a some of the mattresses could do with replacing, there was nothing else wrong that a full service could not fix.
It was therefore agreed that we would service their existing 16 ‘GLIDEAWAYS’® and replace a few of the mattresses and this still left sufficient money in their budget for the Ward to be able to add 8 new beds to their ‘fleet’, giving them a ‘GLIDEAWAY’® for each one of their 24 patient beds and there was still some ‘change’ left over!
So, not only is our high performance ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed the strongest, most comfortable and user-friendly Hospital guest bed on the market but, as this Case Study clearly demonstrates, it’s also by far the most resilient and best value one.
During It’s Exceptionally Long Working Life, The ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed Works Out Cheaper Than Even A £100 Guest Bed
When costed over its impressively long service life, the ‘GLIDEAWAY’® works out, not just cheaper, but FAR cheaper, than so-called ‘cheap’ guest beds, costed over the same period – see the graph below.
SO CHOOSING THE ‘GLIDEAWAY’® REALLY IS A ‘NO-BRAINER’.
After 10 Years…
At the end of 10 years the ‘GLIDEAWAY’® can still be serviced and will continue to give good value for years to come. Many of our customers have been using their ‘GLIDEAWAYS’® for 15, or even 20 years.
Other General Hospitals using the ‘GLIDEAWAY’® only to meet their visitor bed requirements, include, Leicester Royal infirmary, the Royal Stoke Hospital, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Queens Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital.
