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Our News
Apprentices rise to the challenge
July 17, 2012
Two out of three finalists in a nationwide competition are answering challenges set by Queen Elizabeth Birmingham Hospital Charity.
We asked apprentices at BAE Systems to solve two challenges faced by our military patients.
And now they are down to the final three in Make it in Great Britain’s People’s Choice award, a nationwide competition to seek out the UK’s next big pre-market products, processes and concepts. Votes are now open and can be cast at the Make it in Great Britain website
BedFlex has been designed so that recovering amputees and critical care patients can take part in bed-based exercise to aid rehabilitation. Using an innovative attachment, BedFlex enables patients to secure resistance tubing to a stable object (such as the bed) without the risk of the elastic slipping or coming undone – a common problem with existing physiotherapy tools which use resistance tubing.
INVISO has been designed to give a greater field of vision to paralysed or injured servicemen. It allows them to use a mouse or voice control to manoeuvre one of three cameras, connected to a screen. The aim is to give them an unrestricted view of the hospital ward, enabling them to see neighbouring patients and visitors, and to help with basic needs such as eating and shaving.
The innovations will be on display in the Science Museum, London, between 24 July and 9 September 2012.
“The hospital charity provides those added extras that make a huge difference to the lives of military patients and their families. Thank you for your support”
Harry Wallace
Royal Centre for Defence Medicine staff nurse
