Cover story – advertising feature
Putting people and planet first while protecting your pocket
Eddy Fishwick, chairman of award-winning supplier CareHomeLife, discusses how replacing medical, housekeeping and laundry consumables with fewer but more effective products and professional systems allows care homes to do much more, much better with a whole lot less.
We are all too aware that it remains a challenging time for the UK’s 18,000-plus nursing and care homes. While occupancy rates have been predicted to quickly recover to pre-pandemic levels, Covid remains an ongoing threat affecting residents, families and staffing alike. This all serves to highlight the importance for great quality care homes who can safely look after our dependant loved ones.
The dignity and comfort of those in care is vital and our company CareHomeLife exists to support care homes in their quest to provide that. Everyone at CareHomeLife works hard to understand the challenges facing care homes, and the burning issues of today as we navigate our way out of the pandemic. As recent recipients of two Care Sector Supplier Awards - one for Multi-Channel Supplier and another in the all-important Infection Prevention & Cleaning Services category - it gives me great pleasure to share with this incredible and selfless industry an insight into how, with a sprinkling of innovation and guidance from helpful experts, care homes can achieve
breakthrough performance in medical, cleaning and laundry. Powerful first-time results can be accomplished, adding real value to the care environment with great advantages for everyone involved: the safest, most hygienic surroundings for residents to live in, and savings for staff in time and effort while reducing care supply costs and the impact on the planet.
Care consumables spend Balancing your care home’s budget is integral to success and, while the biggest overhead is the workforce, managing spend on day-to-day supplies requires close attention. Typically, that first port of call for homes looking to make those much-needed savings has been searching for the lowest prices available in the market. However, taking a more holistic approach and considering an alternative perspective of ‘total operating value’ will bring the greatest financial benefit to an organisation. Total operating value looks at the bigger picture - not just ‘piece price’, but overall expenditure. While saving money on
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consumption of product - through high performance and efficiencies - this method also makes a positive impact on other expenditure and our planet, such as lowering water and energy consumption, reducing the need to rewash and eliminating waste. This is proven time and again to be a much more sustainable means of reducing spend and introducing efficiencies without conceding product integrity. In most cases new medical and housekeeping regimes will not only save time and money but also improve on current product performance and results.
Confidence in quality means confidence in care As the saying goes, ‘you don’t know, what you don’t know.’ Care homes need to know that there is a better alternative out there for the effective management of IPC. CareHomeLife’s supply chain is rich in world- class manufacturers. One of our trusted partners, P&G Professional, really leads the pack when it comes to cleaning and laundry – that is why they are an integral part of our cleaning proposition. Effective protocols increase confidence in use and that is why all our systems are reinforced by extensive training and ongoing support from our team of helpful experts.
Simplify and save without compromising quality Housekeeping and Kitchen Professional System Our award-winning cleaning proposition is uniquely beneficial to care homes due to a streamlined, high performing product
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Joel Fishwick of CareHomeLife THE
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