Standard Profiling Beds

Standard Profiling Beds for General Healthcare Use

Standard profiling beds are electrically adjustable medical beds designed to improve patient comfort and support effective clinical care delivery through multi-section adjustment, representing the most widely-used category of healthcare beds, suitable for general medical care, surgical recovery, residential care, and community use, featuring electric adjustment of backrest, leg rest, and overall bed height via handset controls, robust construction supporting frequent healthcare use, compatibility with standard pressure care mattresses, side rail provision options, and professional aesthetics appropriate to care environments across hospitals, care homes, hospices, rehabilitation centres, community hospitals, and domiciliary care throughout England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. These versatile healthcare beds form the backbone of patient care provision, serving hospital medical and surgical wards treating varied patient populations, care homes providing residential and nursing care for elderly residents, hospices delivering palliative care, rehabilitation centres supporting patient recovery, community hospitals offering intermediate care, and home care enabling people to remain in familiar environments, meeting NHS healthcare bed standards, CQC care home quality expectations, and supporting clinical excellence across all UK care sectors.

Standard profiling beds suit general patient populations requiring adjustable bed functionality without specialist features, providing essential capabilities supporting clinical care and patient comfort across hospitals, care homes, hospices, and community care throughout the UK. Typical specifications include four-section bed frames enabling independent adjustment of backrest (0-70 degrees), thigh section, leg rest, and bed height, electric motors powered by mains electricity with battery backup maintaining function during power failures, handset controls offering user-friendly operation by patients or carers with lockout functions preventing unauthorised adjustment where appropriate, height adjustment ranges typically 40-80cm enabling optimal working heights for care staff reducing manual handling risks whilst providing low positions supporting patient mobility, maximum user weight capacity typically 200-250kg accommodating most patient populations, standard dimensions usually 2000-2100mm length and 900-1000mm width fitting existing healthcare furniture and room layouts, side rail compatibility accepting standard healthcare bed rails where risk assessment determines appropriate, and professional medical-grade construction including easy-clean surfaces supporting infection control, robust frames ensuring longevity, and smooth quiet operation. Standard profiling beds accept all pressure care mattress types enabling individualised pressure ulcer prevention strategies, integrate with overbed tables and other accessories, and suit varied care environments from acute hospital wards to domestic bedrooms throughout England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

Select standard profiling beds for general healthcare applications across hospital medical and surgical wards, care homes providing residential and nursing care, hospices delivering palliative care, rehabilitation facilities, community hospitals, and domiciliary care throughout the UK. Standard beds suit patients without complex positioning requirements, excessive weight, high falls risk necessitating ultra-low beds, or specialist clinical needs requiring advanced features. Assessment considers patient mobility and transfer ability determining optimal height range requirements, pressure ulcer risk necessitating appropriate mattress compatibility, falls risk where standard height ranges appropriate, clinical conditions and positioning requirements, care setting determining aesthetic preferences, and space constraints affecting bed dimensions. Hospitals require robust beds withstanding frequent high-intensity use with easy-clean surfaces supporting infection control. Care homes need comfortable long-term residential beds balancing clinical functionality with homely aesthetics supporting resident wellbeing. Home care prioritises domestic compatibility and user-friendly operation. Ensure beds meet electrical safety standards including medical-grade compliance, structural safety preventing entrapment risks, and manufacturers provide appropriate documentation including risk assessments and instructions. Staff training covers safe bed operation, appropriate use of adjustment functions, side rail risk assessment and implementation, and emergency procedures including manual operation during power failures. Quality standard profiling bed provision supports CQC quality ratings assessing appropriate equipment in care homes, NHS patient safety standards, demonstrates regulatory compliance, and provides essential healthcare infrastructure enabling effective compassionate care throughout England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.