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Barrd: Taking Control of Medication Access
In the fast-paced, high-stakes environment of hospitals, ensuring medicines are stored securely and accessed efficiently is not just a matter of convenience – tis a...
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The Power of Repeatable Design in Clinical Spaces
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, consistency can make a big difference—especially when it comes to the spaces clinical staff rely on every day. Repeatable...
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What Makes an IPS Unit Effective for Infection Prevention?
In clinical spaces, maintaining the greatest levels of hygiene is crucial. One area that plays a key role in infection prevention is the design and...
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Support & Tools for Specifying Clinical Space Projects
When it comes to designing efficient, future-ready clinical spaces, the planning stage is where it all begins. That’s why we help specifiers build plans and...
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Product Highlight: Height Adjustable Worktop Bench
The height adjustable worktop benches represent a practical solution for specialist areas like Pharmacies where staff often spend long hours standing at workbenches, performing tasks...
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Bringing Diagnostics Closer to Home
Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) are fast becoming one of the most important developments in supporting patient care closer to home. These centres play a vital...
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Navigating Budget Pressures: Why Getting It Right First Time Matters
Ensuring the safe and secure storage of medicines in clinical settings is essential to reduce waste, prevent medication errors, and safeguard patients and staff.
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Regulations for Storing & Accessing Medicines in Clinical Settings
Ensuring the safe and secure storage of medicines in clinical settings is essential to reduce waste, prevent medication errors, and safeguard patients and staff.
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Tackling Space Pressures in Hospitals
Hospital are some of the busiest and most essential places in our communities – but behind scenes, they’re often under more pressure than we realise....
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Efficient Storage of Medicines
In busy clinical environments, how medicines are stored isn’t just about convenience – it's about saving time, preventing mistakes, keeping patients safe and also maximising...
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Optimising Cath Lab Efficiency
What happens when medical supplies are not immediately visible or easily accessible in a high-pressure Cath lab setting? A well-designed Cath lab is essential for...
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Inside the Theatre: Designing for Better Outcomes
An operating theatre is a vital component of the healthcare environment, requiring careful planning and design to support surgical procedures effectively. Unlike other clinical spaces,...
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Smarter Shelving for Clinical Spaces
In clinical environments, every detail matters – especially when it comes to infection control, ease of cleaning, and maintaining a professional appearance. One often overlooked...
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Better Infection Control by Design
Infection control is a top priority in hospitals; clinical spaces designed right, make a big difference to keep environments clean and safe.
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Explore our CPD Programmes
We currently have 2 new CPD programmes available packed with practical insights, real-world applications, and hands-on demonstrations.
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Design Considerations for Pathology Labs
Pathology labs are the unseen backbone of hospitals, delivering fast, accurate data that guides life-saving medical decisions.
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Worktops in Clinical Settings
Choosing the correct material for worktops in a clinical settings is critical to ensure they meet the high demands and regulations of healthcare spaces.
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The Future of Access to Medicines
The storage and access to medicines and drugs needs to be strictly controlled. There are multiple risks from having access to medicines including theft.
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Visit Our Showroom
Have you visited our London showroom yet? It’s a great way to see first-hand how clinical spaces can be optimised through storage and design.
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Creating a Contemporary Clinical Environment
Modern healthcare settings demand fitted furniture solutions that are not only functional but also adaptable to the evolving needs of medical professionals and patients alike.
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Accurate Quotations First Time
Accurate quotations that are right first time can be impossible to achieve in larger projects, especially when delivery is in the public sector where budgets...
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Extra Funding Available?
Although public and private sector budgets are normally very tight, extra funding can sometimes unexpectedly become available. This may be from the cancellation of a...
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Product Compendium
The new Stirling Product Compendium is a comprehensive directory of all the different components we can use when designing and optimising clinical space utilisation.
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Cabinet Package Offer
As the end of the financial year comes closer and with the increasing pressures on budgets, we have put together an amazing promotion comprising a...
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Ideas to Maximise NHS Budgets in 2025
As we start to settle into 2025, this is a great time to look at the Governments NHS Improvement Plan and start to consider how...
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Cabinet hinges for the Healthcare environment
Cabinet hinges for the Healthcare environment In a healthcare environment, products are subjected to intense and constant use, often over a long period of time....
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Barrd® Intelligent Security
The Barrd® range of products relates to the security of medicines and drugs. The products have have been developed over many years from real life...
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Why Mobile?
Mobile HTM71 cabinets provide more flexible storage than fixed cabinets by allowing clinical spaces to be used for alternative needs and situations very simply.