Laterally rotating mattresses promoting single-handed care and cost benefits

Andy Robinson, Ultimate Healthcare’s Product Development Manager, has been responsible for designing standard and bariatric turning mattresses.

Ultimate Healthcare’s NEW Heritage II Digital Turn Mattress, provides optimal therapy for the prevention andtreatment of pressure ulcers for patients up to 255kg/40stone. The system combines a very high risk dynamic mattress with the additional feature of a full, left or right lateral turn function of up to 30 degrees to assist manual or provide automatic turning at variable times between 5 – 30 minutes, reducing interface pressures by up to 50%, resulting in greater stimulation to the capillaries. It also incorporates Low Air Loss to reduce skin heat and moisture.

The NEW Liberty II Bariatric Advance Turn also provides optimal therapy for the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers but is specifically aimed at bariatric users with reduced mobility weighing up to 450kg/70stone.The 1200mm width surface systemis similar to the Heritage II Digital Turn in the way that it combines a very high risk dynamic mattress with the additional feature of a full, left or right lateral turn function to assist manual or provide automatic turning at variable times between 10-90 minutes. The difference is the fact that it turns the patient up to 40 degrees and incorporates True Low Air Loss for therapy and to reduce skin heatand moisture.

The Liberty II Bariatric Advance also offers a pulsating therapy mode which helps to provide greater pressure relief and management of oedema.

Ultimate Healthcare believes that the development of the turning mattresses will benefit existing, new and future customers in the fight against pressure injury as well as reduce costs.

“Our new range of dynamic turning mattresses will give users an improved standard of care whilst improving efficiencies for carers without sacrificing safety. Single-Handed Care not only provides a significant cost saving but also promotes independence and dignity” Andy Robinson

For more information on our new range of dynamic turning mattresses please contact our customer services team or click here

A selection of our products are listed on the supply chain web catalogue with Millbrook Health Ltd as the supplier. Ref: FAG16346

 NHS Supply Chain

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Thursday 15th November 2018

The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) is proud to announce that World Wide Pressure Injury Prevention Day is to be celebrated on Thursday, November 15, 2018. The objective of World Wide Pressure Injury Prevention Day is to increase national awareness for pressure injury prevention and to educate the public on this topic.

We supported the following for the Stop the Pressure event:

-      Medway community health at King Charles Hotel, Gillingham.

-      Bedfordshire community tissue viability service

-      Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS foundation trust at the Dianne Princess Of Wales Hospital.

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Wednesday 7th November 2018

We are proud to be the main sponsor of the fourth annual CHASE (Care Home Achievement Success Event) award for React to Red in Bassetlaw where many hard-working people were honoured in various categories.

Geraldine Reevell  and Tessa Anders the React to Red coordinators organised the awards on behalf of Nottingham NHS Healthcare Trust and selected the winners.

The event was another huge success.

Our sales manager Andy Robinson and business development manager Trisha Hayes have worked hard over the past year alongside the tissue viability team. They have provided pressure mapping analysis, clinical trials and care home training across all of the 28 homes in the region, covering all staff.

Geraldine commented:

"A lot of the awards were nominated by the staff themselves. I would like to give a massive thank you to all involved. Keep up the good work and keep inspired."

Geraldine and Tessa run the React to Red programme. Their aim is to reduce the number of pressure ulcers among care home residents. Their train-the-trainer approach in tackling pressure ulcers is the first in the county to do so. As a result of their efforts, all care homes they work with have had a dramatic fall in the number of residents suffering from pressure ulcers.

During August 2018, ZERO% acquired avoidable Pressure Ulcers was achieved across all 28 care home. We are all proud of for this huge achievement.

Ultimate Healthcare would like to thank all 28 Care Homes and a fantastic tissue viability team for all the work done in the last 12 months and again we are proud to be an important part of.

We exhibited at this year's Wounds UK Annual Conference on stand 42, where we had our NEW Heritage II Digital Turn dynamic mattress on display

We along ran a prize drawn competition and would like to say CONGRATULATIONS to the attendees who visited our stand and entered to win Marks and Spencer gift vouchers.

We are pleased to announce the winners are:

• 1st Prize £300 worth of M&S vouchers
Paula Burniston. Care Plus Group

• 2nd Prize £150 worth of M&S vouchers 
Kimberley Bignall. Nottingham Healthcare

• 3rd Prize £50 worth of M&S vouchers
Ewa Szymanis. Nottingham City

We exhibited at this year’s Wounds Assessment & Diagnosis summer conference in Manchester this Thursday 5th July.

This event  provided detailed sessions linking assessment to management and provided clinicians with appropriate education in order to gain confidence in all aspects of wound assessment.

We will look forward to attending the summer Wounds Assessment & Diagnosis conference again next year

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We exhibited at this year's NAEP National Annual Conference at The Chesford Grange Hotel & Conference Centre in Kenilworth (stand 44/45).

We displayed our Cura II Supreme bed, Tamora III Advance alternating 1 in 3 cell mattress, our NEW Ultra-Cline rise recliner cushions and much, much more.

We look forward to attending the show again next year on stand 43.

Click here (NAEP website)

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We exhibited at this year's TVS conference at the The Newcastle Falcons Rugby Club.

Our stand was extremely busy and we had a lot of interest in our products. We are really looking forward to exhibiting at The TVS Conference next year.

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Wednesday 18th April 2018

We exhibited at this year's Wounds prevention conference which took place in Wolverhampton.

The event was very successful and we look forward to exhibiting again next year.

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We are proud to be the main sponsor of the latest CHASE (Care Home Achievement Success Event) award for React to Red in Bassetlaw.

Many hard-working people were honoured in categories including unsung hero, innovator of the year and manager of the year.

Bassetlaw CCG’s award-winning Tissue Viability Team of Geraldine Reevell, Simone Richie and Tessa Anders organised the awards, on behalf of Nottingham NHS Healthcare Trust, and chose the winners.

The event was another huge success.

Our own Andy Robinson and Trisha Hayes have worked hard over the past year with the Tissue Viability Team. We’ve provided pressure mapping analyses, clinical trials and care home training across all 28 homes in the region, covering all staff.

This hard work and collaboration produced fantastic results, as across the homes’ 1,127 residents; there were only 11 avoidable pressure ulcers. The 1% rate has been nationally recognised.

Geraldine commented:

"A lot of the awards were nominated by the staff themselves. I would like to give a massive thank you to all involved. Keep up the good work and keep inspired."

Geraldine, Tessa and Simone run the React to Red programme, aiming to reduce the number of pressure ulcers among care home residents. Their train-the-trainer approach in tackling pressure ulcers is the first in the county to do so.

As a result of their efforts, all care homes they work with have had a dramatic fall in the number of residents suffering from pressure ulcers.

For our part, we will continue to support their fantastic work in our goal to achieve a 0% rate.

The night ended with a 20 minute firework display as a huge thank you for staff’s excellent performance over the last 12 months.