QA3 DRIVE: compact, light and supremely manoeuvrable – now with options for inbuilt drive and powered functions

Manual handling – and all its inherent risk to patients and practitioners – is massively reduced when a patient can get onto a trolley themselves, ready to be wheeled through the anaesthetic room, to the operating theatre and then on to recovery. The practice also aids infection control, thanks to reduced contacts and transfers and fewer items of equipment. The conce...

BACKGROUND Raigmore Hospital in Inverness is part of NHS Highland and is the only acute district hospital serving patients in the Highlands. Based on the Old Perth Road site since 1941, its first ‘rebuild’ to replace wartime pre-fabs was in the 1960s, with the main tower block, where most wards and theatres are housed, being added in the 1980s. A new emergency department...

BACKGROUND NHS Fife is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland and has two main hospitals – the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy (which has 2 theatres suites – Phase 2 elective orthopaedics with 2 theatres and Phase 3 with 11 theatres, supporting both elective and emergency work) and Queen Margaret in Dunfermline which has a dedicated Day Surgery unit consisting of 6 ...