A Caerphilly-based healthcare company has won an award for its innovative new mattress, designed to help prevent heel wounds and save the NHS money.
Direct Healthcare Services, based on the Western Industrial Estate, teamed up with The Welsh Wound Innovation Centre (WWIC) to design and manufacture the product to help reduce the huge cost of pressure wounds.
The resulting mattress, the Dyna-Form Static Air HZ, won the New Product Award at the second annual Insider Media Business and Education Partnership Awards this month. The ceremony was held at Cardiff’s Marriott Hotel on November 4.
Stuart McAllister, European Sales Director, said the company was “delighted and proud” to have won the award.
He said: “As well as having a positive economic impact on the growth of the company, helping us to employ more people, the new mattress is already making a positive difference to the care delivered by healthcare professionals to patients.
“It is also rewarding to know that vital NHS resources and nursing time have been released back into front line patient care as a result of its introduction.”