Static Systems Group, a specialist in the design, supply, installation and maintenance of bedhead services and advanced communication systems, looks back at how nurse call systems and bedhead services trunking systems have developed to meet evolving healthcare and hospital trends.
With founder and group chairman (and a past IHEEM president) Lawrence Turner OBE celebrating his 80th birthday last year, the company considers the changes that have occurred since its 1964 formation. Presenting their respective standpoints, meanwhile, two key competitors offer their own perspectives on 21st Century bedhead and nurse call technology.
The acute healthcare sector, a major user of bedhead services and nurse call systems, continues, first and foremost, to be about the care and treatment of patients. While the fundamental requirements at the bedhead have not changed – the patient needs to be able to call a nurse and the bedside area requires the provision of medical support services – it is an environment that has had huge change thrust on it from a variety of sources, including Government initiatives, new technologies, and changing medical treatments. This article examines the topic through some key themes; provides a brief review of the early days of bedhead services’ development; highlights market and product changes, and concludes with a view of the future.
A modest beginning
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