News & events

Following the recent covid-19 announcement regarding the closure of non-essential businesses, we would like to reassure our customers that as suppliers of essential emergency equipment to the healthcare sector, we are still open for business.

While our aim is to continue to provide an uninterrupted service, we will continue to monitor the ever changing situation, while taking all necessary steps to ensure the wellbeing of both our staff and customers.

Stay safe and look after each other!!

We are excited to announce that our sister company Evolve Healthcare Products will be making their international debut at one of the world's largest medical conferences and trade shows, Arab Health. 

The conference runs from 27th - 30th January at the Dubai World Trade Centre. Evolve healthcare will be part of a delegation of 29 innovative companies flying the flag for the UK and are attending the show to launch their latest evacuation management system TAGlite, sister to the trusted TagEvac.

These simple but highly effective systems utilise the well-known ‘sweep’ method of evacuation, along with zoned Tag Stations with…

We had another successful year at the National Back Exchange annual conference and exhibition, held at the Hinckley Island Hotel in Leicester.

This years conference focused on "working solutions" which was a great fit for our range of low working solutions and evacuation equipment, all of which went down really well with delegates.

Once again we were lucky enough to have Linda Darwent - Chartered Physiotherapist, moving and handling facilitator and creator of the ErgoKneeler and ErgoRaiser, with us to share her knowledge and expertise on promoting good musculoskeletal health.

The conference was a fantastic event for us, and we…

This year’s Foot Health Conference and Exhibition, held in Kettering on the 18-19th June, was as busy as ever. Once again we had a range of our low working equipment available for purchase from the stand which included the ErgoKneeler, Ergoraiser and our popular OneLeg Stool -  lots of lovely delegates took advantage of our show offers.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to see us! We look forward to attending next year’s event 16-17 June 2020. 

This week we have been at the Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh, Edinburgh for the Scottish Moving and Handling Forum (SMHF) Study Day, where we were invited to hold a workshop on  Ergokneeling, entitled - understanding and managing the causes of Musculoskeletal stressing when working at or near floor level, 

We were lucky enough to have Chartered Physiotherapist, moving and handling facilitator and creator of the ErgoKneeler and ErgoRaiser, Linda Darwent lead the workshop and share her vast knowledge and expertise with delegates.

Feedback from the workshop has been amazing! Thank you to everyone who joined us on the day…

If you do a lot of kneeling through your job or hobby, chances are you have experienced aching pains and discomfort in and around your knees. This is caused by the repetitive pressure to that area.

Ignoring these early signs and continuing to kneel excessively without knee protection, can lead to swelling, heat, redness and pain over the knee cap.  At this stage it may become very difficult to bend your knee, kneel or even walk without great discomfort.

These symptoms can be attributed to something called Housemaids Knee, also known as Prepatellar Bursiti. Which in simple terms is inflammation…

We are excited to be participating at this years FootHealth which is now well established as the largest independent conference for podiatrists in the UK attracting over 1000 visitors and 50 exhibitors..

Once again we will have our fantastic OneLeg stools available for purchase along with the ErgoKneeler, ErgoRaiser and  our latest addition the Redbacks Kneeler. 

We hope to see you there on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th June 2019!

It was an absolute pleasure to join our US distributor, Advanced Egress Solutions, at the  2019 Emergency Preparedness Conference in Washington (23-25th April), for the launch of the Tagevac evacuation tracking system, into the USA.

The event sets out to help prepare organisations for emergencies and disasters through greater development and practiced management and execution of their emergency operation plans. 

The Tagevac evacuation system was a big hit with delegates, many of whom were not satisfied with their current system or had no reliable system in place at all.

Tagevac provides its users with a fast and reliable method to…

Require a technical or more appropriate work chair?.... we’ve got it covered!

Certain work environments call for a specific type of work chair, often of a specification that isn’t met by a standard office chair range.

Spectrum Healthcare offer a range of technical work seating for use in a wide range of work environments, from static-sensitive and “GMP” clean rooms to production and everything in between. 

So what is the working environment? And what are the general requirements needed in a work chair?

laboratory or medical facilities – you probably need anti-microbial and bleach cleanable finish. Lab benches tend to…

It has been an absolute pleasure to be able to support our USA distributor, Advanced Egress Solutions, at two conference in the USA this year and offer our knowledge and expertise to delegates, along with introducing further devices into the market.

April saw our International Director, Steve Clark, travel to Orlando for the 14th annual Emergency Preparedness Conference. Organized by the Joint Commission Resources, the two day conference covered topic areas like Disaster Planning, Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Medicine, Patient Safety, Operations, Risk Management, Community Health, and Public Health.

This month we joined Advanced Egress again for the annual AHEPP (Association…