Renray Healthcare
Renray Healthcare is one of the largest and leading suppliers of high quality furniture and products to the healthcare sector. With over 50 years’ experience of manufacturing and supplying to the industry, you can feel rest assured that you are in good hands. Our product offerings include bedroom, lounge, dining and communal furniture for care, nursing and residential establishments; beds, mattresses and PAC; patient and ward furniture for the NHS, and specially designed products for dementia and challenging environments. We also have an in house soft furnishings and flooring department who design, manufacture and install to your requirements. Whether you require a full turnkey service for a new build installation or replacement of products for refurbishment contracts, we have the resources, knowledge and ability to fulfil your project, meeting your time schedule, budget and expectations. It is this complete ‘start to finish’ solution that really sets Renray Healthcare apart and why we have been successful in supplying furniture to the healthcare sector for over 50 years. If you would like a free consultation with one of highly trained consultants visit us at stand 7044 at Dementia Care & Nursing Home Expo, NEC. Alternatively, contact us on; T. 01606 593 456 sales@renrayhealthcare.com www.renrayhealthcare.com Designed with you in mind… Renray Healthcare’s National Manager for Pressure Area Care & Beds, Ross Joannides, is a guest speaker at the Dementia Care & Nursing Home Expo and will be giving a talk about a hot topic within the industry; “The right Pressure Area Care products for the right resident”. Pop along to hear about the importance of choosing the correct PAC products to help in the prevention of pressure ulcers and sores, ultimately, enhancing your residents comfort and wellbeing. At Renray Healthcare we have been producing high quality furniture for over 45 years and are the UK’s largest and leading supplier to the healthcare sector. Whether you require just a fast efficient delivery of quality furniture or a full room installation and fitting service, we have the experience and resources to handle your contract. Projects undertaken for the NHS and most leading independent healthcare groups range from one off units to a seven hundred plus bedroom accommodation centre, all of which receive the same attention to detail and quality service. We manufacture and assemble in our own purpose built factory in Winsford, Cheshire, as well as in Europe to British standards. Hence we are able to ensure that your furniture is produced to the highest standards and we work with you to arrange, plan and meet your time schedule and budget. Our own fleet of vehicles and staff deliver and install all of our furniture. We understand that you are purchasing furniture for the long term and that you require products that are both fit for purpose, stylish and will continue to perform their function well into the future, which is why we design and build our furniture with you in mind.
Local care home celebrates anniversary technology for dementia residents
Anchor’s Beech Hall invests in Dutch ‘Magic Table’. Anchor’s Beech Hall has installed the Tovertafel (‘Magic Table’ in Dutch) in its care home as part of its anniversary celebrations. This award-winning innovation comes from the Netherlands, which is renowned for its cutting-edge approach to dementia care. The Tovertafel contains a series of activities for people living with mid to late stage dementia. It has been designed to encourage instinctive participation, inviting engagement and stimulating a level of physical and social activity rarely seen in people living with dementia in the later stages of their journey. The visual, invigorating Tovertafel games can be played independently or in groups and have been researched and designed alongside people living with dementia so that they exactly match their needs. Taking part helps with health and quality of life and the Tovertafel can create amazing moments of happiness for staff, family members and loved ones alike. On the installation Davina Hemingway, the care home manager at Beech Hall said: ‘This ‘Moving Image’ device has been installed in the Home for a relatively short period but has already seen some outstanding results from our residents. There is no doubt it has helped those living with dementia, but it has other benefits too; it has helped others improve their hand/eye co-ordination and one of the most delighted things to see is the total joy it brings to residents playing the simplest of games with their grandkids when they come and visit.’ John Ramsay, the CEO of Shift 8 Limited – the company which brought the Tovertafel to the UK – said: “We are delighted by the overwhelming responses of the residents at Beech Hall when using the Tovertafel. Designed to create moments of happiness for the residents, it is heart warming to provide positive and invaluable experiences, with residents more motivated to interact with staff, family and carers alike.” The Tovertafel (‘Magic Table’ in Dutch) is an award-winning innovation from the Netherlands, which is renowned for its cutting-edge approach to dementia care. Shift 8, founded by John Ramsay and Mehdi Bedioui, brought the Tovertafel to the UK. The technology contains a series of games for people living with mid to late stage dementia and adults with severe learning disabilities. It has been designed to encourage instinctive participation, inviting engagement and stimulating a level of physical and social activity rarely seen in people living with dementia in the later stage of their journey. The games consist of a series of interactive light animations that can be projected on any table to motivate the mind and inspire those living with dementia and/or learning disabilities to be more active. The Tovertafel creates treasured moments with family members and carers. These games are all about enjoyment and wonder. View the video of the Tovertafel in action here: https://tovertafel.co.uk/care-innovation-dementia/ A social business at heart determined to change the world of dementia care, Tovertafel established the Tovertafel Buddy Programme, a volunteer scheme to help inspire the next generation of young people to get involved in dementia care. Tovertafel was shortlisted as Outstanding Dementia Care Product of the year for the National Dementia Care Awards 2017.
Cromwell Polythene Sansafe® hygienic bin liners
Cromwell Polythene Sansafe® hygienic bin liners – Tomorrow’s Cleaning Awards 2018 finalist Cromwell Polythene Sansafe® antimicrobial and scented bin liners – relaunched with a new formula – use 30% recycled high-density polyethylene, rather than virgin material, as well as a more powerful scent additive. The liners are tested to ISO22196, offering antimicrobial protection to hygienic liners for sanitary and medical disposal services, waste management and janitorial sectors. Manufactured to incorporate Biomaster® silver antimicrobial technology, which is added during the film extrusion process, the bags are protected against harmful bacteria such as E. coli and Legionella, while an enhanced scent additive – Scentmaster® pine tree fragrance – helps mask unpleasant odours both inside and outside the liners. Sansafe® liners save operatives time and money by reducing and even eliminating the need to use separate antimicrobial products during waste collection and disposal. They can also support a facility’s infection prevention and a control programme. Measuring a generous 615mm x 590mm, the liners fit most 30-35 litre bins, while the white opaque film helps obscure the contents for discreet removal. The liners are packed in rolls of 25, 10 rolls per carton, with a guaranteed net box weight of 2.86kg. Cromwell Polythene’s managing director, James Lee, said: “The new formula builds on the success we have enjoyed over the two years since we introduced the original Sansafe® liners. These enhanced liners provide superior performance, while still being a competitively priced against alternatives. “Sansafe® liners continue to raise standards for hygiene, sustainability and cost-effectiveness.” The product proved immediately popular and Cromwell Polythene dispatched a large order to Austria for use in washrooms throughout the capital, Vienna. A total of 90 Sansafe® 30L liners cases consisting of 900 rolls, or 22,500 bags, was sent. Vote for Sansafe liners in the Tomorrow’s Cleaning Awards 2018 Here!
Luxury Retirement Village Scoops European Design Award
Lime Tree Village, a range of independent retirement living residences based in Dunchurch, Warwickshire has scooped a European hospitality design award aimed at celebrating stylish hotels, B&B’s and retirement living. The Award was aimed at celebrating interior design and style across a range of hospitality venues and have been designed to find the most stylish ‘hidden escapes’ from across Europe across a range of categories. The Vision Style Awards, organised by global textiles giant, Vision Support Services, opened for entries back in August with 13 categories to choose from and garnered hundreds of entries – everywhere from Kosovo to Ibiza. After taking home the prize for ‘Inspired Retirement Living Award’, the judges said: “What beautiful surroundings! A modern look yet so full of character, the designers have clearly taken all this into consideration in order to create a homely, yet luxurious look to the entire village and the community atmosphere is evident from the off. The concept is well thought out and the design makes a real statement.” Judging the awards were a range of industry experts and commentators from across the travel industry including Robin Sheppard, CEO of Bespoke Hotels, Sharron Livingstone of The Travel Magazine, Angie Silver, Blogger at Silverspoon London, Richard McCready-Hughes, Creative Director at Goddard Littlefair, Andrew Linwood, Head of Hospitality Design at Areen, Laurie Thomas, Managing Director of Vision Support Services and Jacqui Hurst, Sales Director for UK Hospitality at Vision Support Services. Laurie Thomas, Managing Director of Vision Support Services, said: “Our one-of-a-kind awards are now in their fifth year and it’s been fantastic to uncover so many exquisite entries from across the hospitality sector. We’ve had some outstanding entries which made the judging all the more difficult.” The other winners of the Vision Style Awards are: Vivood Landscape Hotel in Spain for ‘Most Beautiful Bathroom’ Soho House in Barcelona for ‘Europe’s Best Dressed Bed’ , ‘Dreamiest Bedroom’ and ‘Style Winner of the Year’ No Entry in Paris for ‘Most Intimate Bar’ Pink Mamma in Paris for ‘Most Romantic Restaurant’ Nolinski Pairs for ‘Hottest Hotel’ At Six in Stockholm for ‘Most Innovative New Venue’ Annie’s Cabin in Shropshire for ‘Picture-Perfect B&B or Guesthouse’ Three Glens in Scotland for ‘Eco-Champion of the Year’ La Villa de Mazamet in the South West of France for ‘Greatest Night’s Sleep’ Prizes include a glass trophy, certificate, a luxury hamper, cash voucher and a double-page spread in the 2018 Vision Style Guide. The Vision Style Guide, an annual look-book aimed at uncovering hospitality trends will be released in April. www.visionsupportservices.com
Qintil – New platform helps to tackle care skills crisis
now care workers can share what they know with providers. Qintil has created a learning management system that helps care workers collect all of their certificates, gain new skills and then share their profile with care homes. The National Audit Office has just released a report on The adult social care workforce in England. The report estimates that the workforce will need to grow by 2.6% every year until 2035. Yet the turnover rate of care staff has been increasing since 2012-13 and in 2016-17 reached 27.8%, meaning providers must spend funds on recruitment they could otherwise have spent on providing quality care. Qintil is designed to help those who work in care – or would like to – to share their skills and certificates with employers easily and to help employers find pre-qualified employees and save money on duplicating basic skills training. The system also helps care providers with features to help them stay on top of training such as finding new courses, alerts and notifications when colleagues need to refresh their skills and detailed reporting to help with CQC compliance. All of this information is pulled into a compliance matrix which helps the care home understand their compliance in real time. Sam Easen, Founder and CEO of Qintil, said “We built Qintil for my own business. I ran a nursing agency employing over 1,000 healthcare professionals in the UK and Australia. Our nurses were always out working with our customers, so it was difficult to get them into the office for a day of unpaid mandatory training which we needed to stay compliant with our regulator. We looked for an e-learning system that could do the job more efficiently, but most were too expensive or cumbersome for our needs. So we built our own.” Sam added, “We got our first customer by accident. We showed the system to our nursing agency customers – nursing homes and hospitals who used our staff to cover short term staffing shortfalls – to demonstrate – as a mark of quality – how we train our staff. Then one customer asked if they could use it themselves.” The training dashboard within Qintil Learning Manager is a snapshot of your organisations compliance in real time. It helps care homes see instantly how compliant they by team, unit, location or across an entire multi-site organisation. Sam also added, “When I set out to rebuild the platform for a wider market, I looked at the issues that affected businesses and their employees: ever increasing compliance requirements, tight budgets, a workforce that is more transient than ever. People might work for more than one company at the same time. And there are more ways and places than ever to learn, but no single place to store and evidence all those certificates and skills.” Qintil was designed to unify learning and make it transparent for employers to understand who has the required training and who does not, without wasting resources on retaking courses and training. Visit www.qintil.com to learn more and for your 30-day free trial.
Cleanliness, hygiene and fine fragrance
Cleanliness and hygiene are of paramount importance for carers and nurses but often deep cleaning, antibacterial products smell strongly of bleach or chemicals. Imagine if you could clean up vomit, bodily fluids, faeces and blood with professional grade cleaning products while, at the same time, managing the unpleasant odours and leaving the surroundings with a fresh, uplifting scent. With Aromapersonal you can: the range has been created by Quentin Steele, an expert with 30 years’ cleaning industry experience in hygiene and odour management, and Julie Foster, an expert aromatherapist, perfumer and product designer with first-hand experience of caring. They understand how to combine anti-bacterial ingredients and bio-enzymes – to break down the proteins found in vomit, bodily fluids and faeces that can be hard to clean from surfaces, floors and textiles – with natural fragrances to create a hygienically clean, fragrant environment. Food and bodily fluid spills including vomit and faeces leave proteins embedded in the fabric or carpet which is why normal cleaning products fail to solve the hygiene and malodour issue. Formulated with concentrated bio enzymes, the Bio-Enzyme Odour Management Formula breaks down and digests these proteins to minimise malodour. It can also be used in the sink, bath and shower where traces of fluids and faeces can become trapped. Convenience and speed are key for carers and nurses who need to act quickly. Understanding this, Quentin developed two of its products that don’t even need water. The Direct to Floor Cleansing and Deodorising Formula includes professional antibacterial ingredients are expertly blended with powerful cleaning agents for a deodorising, hygienic and speedy floor clean. You simply spray it on to the floor, wipe clean and dry. The Hard Surface Antibacterial Cleansing & Deodorising Formula can also be simply sprayed on and wiped away with a dry cloth to leave surfaces hygienically clean with a beautiful natural citrus fragrance. When it comes to cleaning furniture and fabric, the Textile Cleansing & Hygiene Formula is very handy. This cleansing and deodorising spray has silver added to neutralise and protect against bacteria and malodours and it has a fine fresh fragrance including natural botanicals to relax the mind. aromapersonal.co.uk
Castle View Windsor leads the way on fire safety as Fire Service puts it to the test
A full scale fire rescue with the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service has been staged at the new Castle View Retirement Village at Helston Lane, Windsor, which opens this Autumn, together with a 72 bed onsite care home. Taking the lead after a further fire tragedy at a care home in Stevenage just last week and Grenfell, Castle Retirement Living has put fire safety to the top of its list. The full training exercise, fronted by watch manager Matt Weldon and teams from the local area took three hours and involved three fire engines and a team of 15 firefighters to stage a mock rescue. Said Robin Hughes, Managing Director, Castle Retirement Living, who was at the training exercise: “Beyond our enhanced fire safety strategy for the development including a sprinkler system, a fire resistant concrete structure and multiple staircases, the exercise proved that all residents that move into Castle View should be reassured about the highest level of fire safety. “All balconies were proven to be fully accessible by the fire brigade and its aerial ladder platform can also sit on the sky deck of the development’s Castle View Sky Lounge.” RBFRS’s Watch Manager Matt Weldon, commented: “The exercise was successful for a number of reasons, the site’s generous access allowed the brigade to manoeuvre our vehicles into effective positions, this aided the crews in performing their duties. There is also compelling evidence that fire sprinkler systems save lives, prevent property loss and limit environmental damage. RBFRS strongly recommends the provision of sprinklers as part of a building’s overall fire safety solution.” Once completed, Castle View Windsor will provide homes for over 150 local residents for the over 55s and upwards. Added Robin Hughes: “The findings from the Grenfell enquiry will take time to unfold and during our build we decided to take the lead on fire safety by building a concrete frame, installing sprinklers in all corridors. This exercise also demonstrated beyond doubt that every apartment balcony along with the sky deck is accessible to the fire brigade.” Four show apartments at Castle View will be ready for viewing in May just after the Royal Wedding weekend and local residents will continue to have priority reservation until 30th June 2018 when the apartments go on general release. www.castleviewwindsor.co.uk
Cutting Edge Technology For Dementia Residents
Anchor’s Beech Hall invests in Dutch ‘Magic Table’. Anchor’s Beech Hall has installed the Tovertafel (‘Magic Table’ in Dutch) in its care home as part of its anniversary celebrations. This award-winning innovation comes from the Netherlands, which is renowned for its cutting-edge approach to dementia care. The Tovertafel contains a series of activities for people living with mid to late stage dementia. It has been designed to encourage instinctive participation, inviting engagement and stimulating a level of physical and social activity rarely seen in people living with dementia in the later stages of their journey. The visual, invigorating Tovertafel games can be played independently or in groups and have been researched and designed alongside people living with dementia so that they exactly match their needs. Taking part helps with health and quality of life and the Tovertafel can create amazing moments of happiness for staff, family members and loved ones alike. On the installation Davina Hemingway, the care home manager at Beech Hall said: “This ‘Moving Image’ device has been installed in the Home for a relatively short period but has already seen some outstanding results from our residents. There is no doubt it has helped those living with dementia, but it has other benefits too; it has helped others improve their hand/eye co-ordination and one of the most delighted things to see is the total joy it brings to residents playing the simplest of games with their grandkids when they come and visit.” John Ramsay, the CEO of Shift 8 Limited – the company which brought the Tovertafel to the UK – said: “We are delighted by the overwhelming responses of the residents at Beech Hall when using the Tovertafel. Designed to create moments of happiness for the residents, it is heart warming to provide positive and invaluable experiences, with residents more motivated to interact with staff, family and carers alike.”
Cambridgeshire day hospice rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission has found the quality of care provided by The Alan Hudson Day Treatment Centre in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, to be Outstanding in all areas following inspections in July. The Alan Hudson Day Treatment Centre is a day hospice, based at the North Cambridgeshire Hospital in Wisbech, which supports people who are living with a life-limiting illness and their families. The service provides day therapy, treatment and clinical days (including haematology and oncology work), complementary and diversional therapies as well as bereavement and support services. Inspectors found staff were caring and compassionate and people were being provided with safe, responsive, caring, effective and well-led care. A full inspection report has been published on the Care Quality Commission’s website: http://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-2018749000 Under the Care Quality Commission’s programme of inspections, all adult social care services are being given a rating according to whether they are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. The Alan Hudson Day Treatment Centre is rated Outstanding for being responsive, well-led, safe, effective and caring. Jemima Burnage, CQC’s Head of Inspection for Adult Social Care in the central region said: “Our inspection team were extremely impressed by the level of care and support offered to people at The Alan Hudson Day Treatment Centre, which we found gave them an enhanced sense of quality of life and well-being. “The warm, welcoming and relaxed atmosphere at the centre provided people and their families with a safe haven at some of the most difficult times of their lives. People were made to feel comfortable and were provided with care and treatment by an exceptionally caring and supportive staff team. “Staff were, without exception, kind, compassionate and caring. People, their relatives and external professionals could not praise the staff team highly enough. They gave numerous examples of occasions when they felt staff had ‘gone the extra mile’. “There was a culture in the service that enabled staff to continually look at what more they could do for people. People were reassured that they were receiving the right treatment because staff undertook a number of additional tests to make sure that the treatment people had been referred for was appropriate. “Staff knew each person extremely well, their likes, dislikes, preferences and wishes and showed how much they cared about each person who came to the Centre. People were made to feel that they mattered. Staff also showed that they cared for people’s relatives and contact and support was maintained following the person’s death. Relatives knew they could just drop in or ring if they needed to talk. “All of this meant people received a high standard of care, which is why it has been rated Outstanding.” Andrea Sutcliffe, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, said: “The quality of care which our inspectors found here was exceptional and I am very pleased that we can celebrate the service’s achievements. “An outstanding service is the result of a tremendous amount of hard work and commitment. I would like to thank and congratulate everyone involved.”
