'GLIDEAWAY'® Visitor Guestbeds

Fully compliant, space and cost saving, safe and comfortable: Our mobile GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed frames are guaranteed for 10 years, but will last much longer. Use them wherever and whenever required.

Single 'GLIDEAWAY'® Guestbed

Compact, powder coated, all steel construction, automatic leg action, Hospital wheels (2 with brakes), rubber corner protectors, a choice of 2 single sizes and a wipe-clean/waterproof mattress, put the ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed in a class of its own. This model will sleep even overweight adults, for extended periods, in safety and comfort, at a convenient height of 47cm. 

Load capacity up to 200kg. 

Available in 2 Single Sizes and 10 Bedframe Colours

760mm x 1900mm (2ft 6ins x 6ft 3ins) and 915mm x 2000mm (3ft x 6ft 6ins)

Double 'GLIDEAWAY'® Guestbed

The ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed is now also available in 2 standard double sizes, which are much stronger, easier to handle, less bulky and higher off the floor (47cm) when deployed than other double heavy duty guest beds.  

Load capacity up to 400kg.

Available in 2 Double Sizes and 10 Bedframe Colours

1200mm x 1900mm (4ft x 6ft 3ins) and 1350mm x 1900mm (4ft 6ins x 6ft 3ins)

Extra High XH 'GLIDEAWAY'® Guestbed

The Extra High XH ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed, originally developed for Marie Curie Hospices, to accommodate patients’ partners, family members, friends, or carers overnight, enables patients and visitors to sleep in close proximity and at the same height (67.5cm). This model also incorporates a handy steel Bedding Tray.

Load capacity up to 200kg. 

Available in 2 Single Sizes and 10 Bedframe Colours

760mm x 1900mm (2ft 6ins x 6ft 3ins) and 915mm x 2000mm (3ft x 6ft 6ins)

What Makes the 'GLIDEAWAY'® Such an Attractive Visitor Bed for Hospital Use?

Unlike most other guest beds, ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Hospital Visitor Guestbeds comply fully with all current Infection Control, Health & Safety, Manual Handling and Flame Retardancy requirements.

Unlike any of its’ competitors, the ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed has been specifically engineered to withstand long term, heavy-
duty, nightly use in busy Hospitals and Hospices. The bed frames are guaranteed for a full 10 years, but will last much longer.

Our ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbeds are designed for a 20 year-plus service life, subject to periodic maintenance. 

Virtually indestructible, hand welded, all-steel bed frames enable the ‘GLIDEAWAY’® to easily cope with loads of up to 200kg (singles) and 400kg (doubles) and sleep even overweight users, for extended periods, in total safety and comfort and at a convenient (47cm) sleeping height.

‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbeds come with a wipe-clean/waterproof mattress (now blue), flame retardant to Ignition Source 5** with a zip-on/zip-off replaceable cover and can be cleaned as you would a normal Hospital bed and mattress, using the same (your usual) cleaning agents. (**Ignition Source 7 also available).

The ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed is designed to be easy and intuitive to handle and use. The front and back legs open out/retract automatically, as the bed is deployed/folded up. Proper Hospital wheels (2 with brakes) make these beds really easy to move around and position. Make them up and use them wherever and whenever required.

‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed safety features include automatic leg action, brakes on two wheels, no sharp edges, rubber corner protectors, double steel safety hooks to hold the beds safely closed when folded up and wipe-clean, laminated, safety/operating instructions, permanently fixed to both sides of every bed.

‘GLIDEAWAYS’® are supported by a full spares and after-sales service. This includes optional periodic servicing – (we recommend a full service just once every 5 years).

Over the course of their impressively long service lives ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbeds have a much lower carbon footprint than less resilient products, assessed over the same period.

Our ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Beds Pay For Themselves By Saving Money In 4 Ways

  • By accommodating visitors on the Ward, there is no need for separate rooms.
  • Ease of handling leads to lower staff workload and reduced operating costs.
  • Reduced stress all round results in faster patient recovery, shorter inpatient stays and significant cost savings.
  • Ultra-long service lives maximise value for money and can result in very substantial cost savings.

Key Features

High Specification 'GLIDEAWAY'® Hospital and Hospice Visitor Guestbeds

Our versatile, state of the art ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed is engineered for demanding, heavy-duty use in Hospitals, Hospices and other Healthcare environments where safety, durability and ease of use are essential. Every detail has been carefully designed to make it the safest, strongest, most user friendly and comfortable guest bed on the market. Make it up and use it wherever and whenever required.

Folding out a 2ft. 6ins. High Performance Single ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed

Our World Class ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed Offers a Better Experience

The ‘GLIDEAWAY’® offers a safe environment, better experiences and peace of mind for visitors, patients and staff alike. Unlike flimsy domestic guest beds that fail under pressure, or bulky contract beds that are awkward, heavy and waste precious space during the day, the ‘GLIDEAWAY’® delivers:

  • Optimised space and cost saving
  • Effortless setup and storage
  • Superior comfort
  • Exceptional durability
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A 2ft. 6ins. High Performance Single ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed Frame only - showing its ultra robust construction

The 'GLIDEAWAY'® Visitor Guestbed Pays For Itself By Saving Money In 4 Ways

  • By accommodating visitors on the Ward, there is no need for separate rooms.
  • Ease of handling leads to lower staff workload and reduced operating costs.
  • Reduced stress all round results in faster patient recovery, shorter inpatient stays and significant cost savings.
  • Ultra-long service lives maximise value for money and can result in very substantial cost savings.
A 2ft.6ins. Extra High XH ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed, opened out. Note the integral Bedding Tray

Use The Award Winning ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed For Short, Or Longer Visitor Stays

Use the super versatile ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Guestbed for short, or long visitor stays. It will sleep even overweight adults, for extended periods in safety and comfort and at a convenient 47cm sleeping height, easily coping with loads of upto 200kg (singles) and 400kg (doubles). The ‘GLIDEAWAY’® will help keep patients and family members, or carers together, reducing stress and anxiety all round and speeding up patient recovery times.

A 4ft. 6ins. Double High Performance ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed, opened out.

How Does The High Performance ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guest Bed Compare With Other Guest Beds?

The ‘GLIDEAWAY’® sets the benchmark for the Hospital and Hospice guest bed sector and is in a class of its own: 

Look at the two pictures below. You don’t need to be an expert to instantly see that the ‘GLIDEAWAY’® bed frames are not just superior, but VASTLY superior to the others, in every way – we are literally talking ‘chalk and cheese’ here!
Two Typical Guest Bed Frames.
Award Winning GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed Frames

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’.

COMPARATIVE PURCHASE COSTS
(NET OF ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED COSTS)

A £100 ‘cheap’ guest bed will last 6 months, at most, in a Hospital, or Hospice. A £900 ‘GLIDEAWAY’® will easily last 10 years, or more. So do the maths: which one is actually going to work out cheaper?

Dividing the ‘GLIDEAWAY’® price by 10, we get a cost of £90/year.

Compare this with £100 for the ‘cheap’ guest bed, which will last just a few weeks, or months at most!

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.

Some of our long-standing repeat customers

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