UK’s “national fleet” of mobile operating suites heading to Europe in major international campaign by Vanguard Healthcare.
Vanguard Healthcare – the leading UK-based supplier of mobile operating rooms and hospital facilities – has challenged countries across the Continent to embrace a more flexible framework of services within their healthcare systems.
Already described as the “national fleet” of the UK National Health Service, Vanguard is seeking to achieve a similar status across the rest of Europe and instigate a change in the way healthcare is approached – particularly in incorporating the range of innovative, exciting mobile solutions that are available to healthcare providers on the Continent.
Previously only available in the UK, Vanguard is now offering its mobile services – including state-of-the-art operating suites, endoscopy units, and day clinics – across the whole of Europe.
Spearheaded by a newly appointed international business director, Maurizio Pupi, Vanguard’s international campaign is intended to offer a solution to capacity challenges facing European healthcare providers that can be incorporated into their existing framework of services.
Maurizio Pupi, who joined Vanguard’s executive team in January, said: “In Europe the challenges of the future will only be met successfully if the healthcare industry is built upon a framework of flexibility, and the only way to do so is for healthcare providers to embrace the new ideas and innovations on offer.
“Our mobile services allow providers, both private and public, to revolutionise the way they treat patients, with flexible, state-of-the-art facilities on hand to deploy to any location, regardless of the situation. It is this flexibility that will allow healthcare providers to treat more and more patients without the loss of standards or the need for significant capital expenditure.”
Vanguard’s sales and operations director Mary Smallbone explained: “Now ,more than ever, European nations are facing stringent budgets and an ageing, healthy population, which could potentially have lasting and significant impacts on the capacity and standards of their healthcare systems – a problem also felt in the UK.
“As private healthcare providers and the NHS have done in the UK, providers across Europe can now utilise our mobile services as a means by which to approach capacity challenges and establish a healthcare framework with true flexibility and longevity.”
Vanguard says its European focus follows close on the heels of highly successful inaugural trips to Germany’s Medica in November 2009 and Arab Health in Dubai earlier this year, where the company showed two of its fully operational, state-of-the-art units to delegates from around the globe.
Until now, Vanguard’s services have been available only within the UK, where the company says they have been dubbed the “national fleets” due to their extensive deployment by the NHS. Since the company was founded in 2000, over 120,000 procedures have been performed on Vanguard surgical units.
