SME News Q3 2025 / 12 In the early 1980’s the company explored a completely new potential market for their heavy-duty wall beds to provide ground-breaking, space-efficient, cost-effective overnight accommodation in Hospitals and Hospices for visitors such as parents on Children’s Wards, fathers on Maternity Wards and partners, friends, or carers on Cancer, Palliative Care, Dementia and other adult Wards and in Hospices. Providing such facilities was not common at the time and the products available were totally unsuitable, so Hospital Visitor Beds set about designing and perfecting what has now become their award winning range of high-performance ‘WISKAWAY’® Visitor Wallbeds, engineered specifically to withstand daily, long-term (25 years-plus), heavy-duty Hospital/Hospice use (subject to servicing every 5 years) and to comply fully with all relevant Infection Control, Health & Safety, Manual Handling and Fire Retardancy requirements. This involved designing a virtually indestructible, welded, all-steel bedframe, with easily replaceable parts. Hospital Visitor Beds went on pioneer the adoption of wall beds in Hospitals and Hospices, with their ‘WISKAWAY’® Wallbeds, providing the ideal solution to accommodating Visitors (especially parents on Paediatric and Neonatal Wards) overnight. These beds come with a really comfortable, wipe-clean/ waterproof mattress and can be folded-away effortlessly and fully madeup, (in literally seconds in an emergency) into their own compact, integral housing, located (fixed) Most Trusted Hospital Visitor Bed Supplier 2025 With over 43 years’ experience, working closely with both NHS and private Hospitals and Hospices, Hospital Visitor Beds is the UK’s leading, longest established and most trusted supplier of space-saving Visitor beds for Hospitals and Hospices. With not just one, but two world class, award-winning space-saving bed ranges, ‘WISKAWAY’® Visitor Wallbeds and ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbeds, the company has set the benchmark for the sector, enabling a family member, partner, friend, or carer to stay in comfort overnight in Hospital, to support a patient throughout their in-patient treatment, with minimal loss of daytime Ward space. Read on to learn how this came about. right next to the patient’s bed. In short, they were in a class all of their own and nothing else on the market could come close. So when a whole series of dedicated new Children’s Hospitals was planned/constructed in the early 2000’s, Hospital Visitor Beds’ ‘WISKAWAY’® Wallbeds were uniquely placed to provide state-of-theart parents’ bed accommodation and orders came in from all over the country. Not just designed to save space, these Visitor Wallbeds offered a host of key additional benefits for their users (hospital staff and visitors alike) including safety, comfort, ease-of-handling, time and cost savings, durability and value for money. But Hospital Visitor Beds doesn’t stop at just offering exceptional products, they’re dedicated to supporting their customers every step of the way and their comprehensive after-sales service is designed to ensure that their customers’ investment continues to deliver, year after year, offering a full spares, installation/re-location service and (optional) periodic servicing. ‘WISKAWAY’® Visitor Wallbeds come in Horizontal and Vertical versions, single, double and made-to-measure sizes and a wide selection of finishes and, because Hospital Visitor Beds make these beds to order, they can be very flexible about any special customer requirements. Building on the success of their fixed ‘WISKAWAY’® Visitor Wallbeds, the company then turned their attention to the mobile Hospital/Hospice guest bed market where, again, most products were (and still are) noncompliant and unsuitable. The result was their new ‘GLIDEAWAY’® Visitor Guestbed, (today a whole ‘family’ of guest beds), based on the same unbeatable standards as their ‘WISKAWAY’® Wallbeds and available with wipe-clean/waterproof mattresses, in single, double and special sizes and a choice of 10 bedframe colours. The ’GLIDEAWAY’® set completely new standards of safety, comfort, ease-of-handling, durability and value for money and could be madeup and used, whenever and wherever required. It took the Hospital/ Hospice guest bed market ‘by storm’ and is now the ‘go to’ choice, supported by the same unique spares/after-sales service as Hospital Visitor Beds’ wall beds. “The fact that we are serial disruptors and innovators, have been the top specialists for over 40 years and offer the two leading, ‘best lifetime value’, product ranges in the Hospital/Hospice Visitor bed field, is what has made us the most trusted Visitor bed supplier” says Founder and MD, John Miller. “Unlike our competitors, we make a point of staying in close contact with our customers and can always be relied on to help: servicing, modifying and even moving our (fixed) beds, if required. When costed over their amazingly long working lives, our Visitor beds also work out FAR better value and have a lower carbon footprint than anything comparable on the market”. Contact: [email protected] Company: Hospital Visitor Beds Website: www.HospitalVisitorBeds.co.uk A single ‘GLIDEAWAY’ Guestbed A Vertical ‘WISKAWAY’® Parents’ Wallbed, located right next to the child's Hospital bed, on ground floor Ward 75, at Manchester Children’s Hospital in 2009. In 2021 we moved all 24 of these beds up to third floor Ward 86, where they continue in daily use, to make way for an expanded A&E Department.
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