Hospital & Healthcare Lifts
Hospital and healthcare lifts for NHS trusts, private facilities and care homes. Bed lifts, evacuation lifts and fully automated service lifts — fitted in buildings that cannot close for us.
NHS
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Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital
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North Manchester General
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Northampton General
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Queen Elizabeth London
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The Doctors Laboratory
A hospital corridor is not a building site.
Installing a lift in a hospital or care home comes with a level of decorum that most sites do not demand. There is constant traffic, patients within earshot, and infection control to respect. Every one of our engineers is trained for it, and it is the part of the job we are proudest of.
We work in line with Department of Health guidance, and we are accredited by the Lift and Escalator Industry Association with an
Acclaim accreditation for health and safety.
- Engineers trained for live clinical environments — noise, dust and route discipline
- Works to Department of Health guidance and the relevant Health Technical Memoranda
- LEIA affiliated, Acclaim accredited for health and safety, SMAS Worksafe
- Phased and out-of-hours working so a department never has to close
Beds, equipment, samples, trolleys, people.
Accessibility in healthcare is not a nice-to-have. Everything and everyone has to move between floors reliably, and each of those loads wants a different lift.
Used across hospitals, laboratories and care homes. With over 25 car sizes and layouts, a passenger lift fits most parts of most buildings — and bespoke models cover the rest. Designed to last decades, so patients, visitors and clinicians all reach the right floor without delay.
Moves goods and people in the same shaft — food, medical equipment, patient beds ward to ward. That means you avoid installing an extra passenger lift and keep the floor area it would have cost you, while nothing arrives damaged.
Found in hospitals and laboratories across the UK. Light and medium loads up to 450 kg — medication, samples, linen — on electric motors and automatic systems with far more secure modern tracks than the units they replace.
Independence is part of the treatment.
Bed-bound patients, manual and powered wheelchair users, people who cannot manage stairs, patients attached to IVs and machinery that cannot be carried — all of them depend on a lift working.
For patients on medium to long stays, being able to move freely and comfortably with a degree of independence supports their mental health as well as their physical recovery. It also makes visiting a loved one on the fourth floor possible.
In an emergency, the lift is the corridor.
Equipment, lab samples and patient beds move between floors constantly, and in an emergency that movement is time-critical. Dumbwaiters and goods lifts take the routine load off the main lifts and out of the stairwells.
Good circulation also means less crowding — fewer human obstacles for a crash team to get through — and far less physical strain on staff carrying loads up stairs.
We do not fit your lift and leave you to it.
Packages tailored to usage, with 4, 6 or 12 visits a year. We spot the telltale signs of a declining lift before it becomes a fault that empties a ward corridor.
Lifts last around 20 to 25 years if looked after. At the first signs of decline, refurbishing the mechanics and the interior costs far less than the breakdowns it prevents.
Breakdowns happen on equipment used day in, day out. Repairs are included in our maintenance contracts, with engineers based across the UK to get there fast.
The compliance detail, without the sales gloss.
Passenger & bed lifts
LOLER 1998
Goods passenger lifts
LOLER 1998
Service lifts / dumbwaiters
LOLER 1998
Evacuation lift function test
EN 81-76
Planned maintenance visits
By usage
We schedule the thorough examination, carry it out and issue the certificate — there is no third-party inspection body for your estates team to chase separately.
Health Technical Memoranda for bed lifts, evacuation routes and infection control during works.
Current lift safety standard for design and installation, with declaration of conformity at handover.
Evacuation lifts for the assisted evacuation of people with disabilities.
Firefighting lifts, including secondary supply and protected lobby requirements.
Accessibility — car dimensions, controls, signals and door dwell times.
Accredited environmental and occupational health and safety management systems.
Silver or Gold maintenance
Both include emergency cover during peak hours plus regular scheduled examination. For labs and acute units we would not recommend the standard package.
Healthcare projects
A new bed lift for the Acute Medical Unit at one of the North West’s busiest A&E departments.
Installation of a brand new 28-person bed lift at the hospital in the Crumpsall district of the city.
Two 33-person goods lifts serving a brand-new bed ward department within the hospital.
Feasibility study on introducing a lift into a protected structure without altering the principal staircase.
Two new bed lifts for a brand new hospital ward, mobilised at urgent notice.
State-of-the-art bespoke fully automated service lifts — a highly complex medical installation.
Feasibility study on introducing a lift into a protected structure without altering the principal staircase.
Two SL7000 platform lifts, up to five people per unit, in a busy children’s centre.
New NHS bed lift for the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital
The Acute Medical Unit is one of the North West’s busiest A&E departments. There was no version of this job where the unit closed — so we phased the work around ward activity and worked nights where the corridor had to be clear by morning.
We have stood in a ward like yours.
Recently.
Ask for healthcare references and we will give you trusts you can ring. A free survey follows, from an engineer who has done this before.