Patients at Royal Preston Hospital have benefited from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals’ soft touch as they receive an easier-to-use buzzer to call for help.
Spending £1623.60 on the new soft touch bells, the neurological ward patients’ struggle is set to be relieved from their conditions that restrict movement, when calling for help to nurses.
Ros Collins, LTHC administrator, said: “It can be difficult for some of the ward’s patients to call for help using a conventional call bell because they can’t reach it or they don’t have the strength or coordination to press it without a real struggle or even at all.
“The new soft touch buzzers are really squishy, much larger, and because they are soft, can just be placed on the patient’s lap or to the side of the patient and won’t cause any heaviness or discomfort.”
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She continued: “They are a simple solution to what can be a big problem. For patients who need them, they will make a really positive difference to their hospital stay.”
“Ward staff, who asked us to buy buzzers as they fall outside of what the NHS is able to fund, believe they’ll have a massive impact.”
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