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July 11th 2025

Lifting with Style: Why the LUNA® X5 Is Redefining Home Lift Design

July 9th 2025

Safe, Smart, Simple: Why the Single Use Swift Transfer Device Is the Ideal Choice

June 16th 2025

Why the LUNA® X5 Ceiling Lift System Delivers the Best Long-Term Value

April 28th 2025

Competition Winner Emma Coles, Brings Five’s Plus Size Patient CPD to Cardiff Team

July 18th 2024

Supporting Safe Moving and Handling of Someone With a Suspected Hip Fracture

In this blog, we look at the intricacies of safely assisting someone with a suspected hip fracture. From the initial assessment to the crucial moments of lifting and transfer, we consider some key techniques that healthcare practitioners should employ to ensure the utmost care and minimal risk for the patient. Alongside these techniques, we consider how the Mangar Swift Transfer Slide and Mangar Rhino Lifting Cushion are essential to the teamwork needed to move someone safely after a fall.

July 18th 2024

Reducing Musculoskeletal Injuries In Care Facilities

It has been stated that “The adult human form is an awkward burden to lift or carry. Weighing up to 200 pounds or more, it has no handles, it is not rigid, and is susceptible to severe damage if mishandled or dropped. When lying in a bed, a patient is placed inconveniently for lifting, and the weight and placement of such a load would be tolerated by a few industrial workers”.[1]

July 18th 2024

Why 4,438 daily falls in UK care homes deserve our attention

As news of increasing long ambulance wait times outside busy hospital A&E departments hit the headlines, an initiative to positively manage elderly falls and promote safe lifting is see early success. Combining Mangar lifting cushions with the ISTUMBLE health assessment app, enables carers to provide single handed care within their care home. Conditions such as dementia and elderly frailty increase the risk of falls and when combined with a long lie, while waiting for an ambulance, the impact can be critical.

July 18th 2024

My Winncare Story: Tracey Duggan, Quality Control Supervisor

Three years ago Mangar Health was acquired by Winncare. The organisation has plenty to celebrate at the moment, not only is it marking its 40th anniversary but it has many loyal employees who have also stood the test of time.

July 18th 2024

Post fall management initiative reduces avoidable hospital admissions by 75%

A recent pilot by Norfolk County Council has seen avoidable ambulance call outs to resident falls within care homes in the region reduce by 75% with the introduction of an initiative that combines a health assessment app called ISTUMBLE™ and a Mangar lifting cushion.