Wardray Premise has supplied bespoke shielded workstations for a new £1.4 million resuscitation unit at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South West London.
Said to be London’s most modern of its type, the unit has been expanded and refurbished as part of the hospital’s development as a major trauma centre, and provides eight resuscitation bays, each with a large bed space to allow emergency care staff to manage the most complex of cases. It also houses a dedicated overhead X-ray system built into the ceiling. Wardray’s brief was to manufacture eight (3.5 metres long x 2 metres high) lead-shielded workstations, which also act as privacy screens. The units required 0.5 mm Pb lead, and the wheels are stabilised by large castor brakes. Despite each weighing half a tonne, the supplier says they are ‘surprisingly easy to manoeuvre’.
