slimline 'Glideaway' Guest Bed, with its lightweight, high-specification, wipe-clean/'waterproof' mattress(flame retardant to CRIB 5) , has none of these drawbacks. It sets completely new standards of safety. ease-of-handling, durability, comfort and space-efficiency.
Following trials and an initial order in 1996 for 4 red 'Glideaways' for Ward G4, at Southampton General Hospital, our launch customer for this model, there are currently over 80 'Glideaways' in service (2007), in various sizes and colours, at this hospital, spread over 8 Wards. During a recent visit in 2008, we found the original 'Glideaways' still in service, on Ward G4.
This pattern has been repeated in general hospitals and specialist children's hospitals across the country.
The 'Glideaway' is also ideal for use in hospices, nursing homes and hotels.
Whilst folding guest beds have long been used for accommodating parents overnight on children's wards and relatives/spouses on adult hospital wards and in hospices, they have until recently tended to fall into one of the following two categories:
1) Inexpensive but flimsy 'domestic' guest beds, with wafer-thin, non-compliant, non-waterproof mattresses, which are uncomfortable, low, simply not 'up-to-the-job' and fall to pieces within literally months, having to be replaced constantly.
2) More heavily built, but consequently very bulky and cumbersome 'contract' guest beds, with rigid bases and sprung mattresses, which waste valuable space when not in use, are often heavy and awkward to handle, sometimes have sharp edges and can be 'lethal' finger traps!
GP Contracts' state-of-the-art, heavy-duty, all-steel,
Click on the arrows or numbers above to see pictures of our 'Glideaway' Guest Bed, at Southampton General Hospital.
