Latest News - Last updated June 2020
MEDesign's factory and offices have remained open and fully operational throughout the UK's lockdown period. The preceding months of March, April and May were particularly busy with urgent covid orders being received from both domestic and export faciltiies - this pace looks to be continuing as we move through June.

All orders for NHS Trusts, Ambulance Services and frontline care facilities continue to be processed and despatched within 24 hours of receiving orders from procurement or supplies departments. An extensive stock holding and our own UK based factory located here in Southport has meant that we have been able to service all orders for patient handling equipment without any delays - we are acutely aware that many intermediary suppliers to the NHS who source alternative products from overseas manufacturers quickly exhausted their stocks and then have been unable to fulfill urgent order requirements and maintain their usual service levels throughout the last 3 month period.

We continue to see strong demand for the complete range of MEDesign's Patient Handling Equipment inventory but of particular note is the ongoing requirement for MEDesign's Patient Slider product. We are delighted that many NHS procurement departments have now taken onboard the fact that both the quality and cost price of this British manufactured product offers a better value yet comparable alternative to significantly more expensive products that are imported into the UK from as far afield as the other side of the world.

Elsewhere, as UK industry and commerce starts to reopen its doors we are now receiving orders from end user companies who need to provide for the needs of large parts of their workforce who are now working from home. With restricted budgets and the need to find a "one product fits all" solution for back pain whilst sitting and working at the dining room table, the long established pedigree of the MEDesign Backfriend has proved to be the ideal solution for those situations where a bespoke office chair (often costing many hundreds of pounds) is no longer an option for cash strapped occupational therapy departments and HR managers who are tasked with ensuring compliance with an ergononic working environment for their offsite workforce.

If you need our assistance and think any of our products would prove to be of value in your own situation then please get in touch and we will do our very best to help.