Evac+Chair International has provided NHS Halton and St Helen’s Primary Care Trust (PCT) with a simple, cost-effective means of evacuating all staff and patients from its clinics and health centres in an emergency.
Colette Rowley, corporate services manager, explained: “Several of our clinics and health centres have one or two floors where clinical services are delivered to ablebodied and disabled patients. In the event of fire evacuation lifts cannot be used, highlighting the need for stairway evacuation chairs.” Evac+Chairs were ordered for Garswood Primary Health Centre, Bevan Way Clinic, Newton Hospital, Fingerpost Healthcare Centre, and Halton Independent Living. The chairs are “intelligently designed”, using continuous rotating v-belts for smooth, controlled descent over stair nosings in proportion to passenger weight, enabling a single user to evacuate a mobility-impaired person out to safety.
