Innova Care Concepts

28/10/2026

Planning a hydrotherapy pool for your SEN school?

The pool is only half the story.
Hoists, changing benches, showering, pool access, storage, plant and safety equipment all have to work together. If one link in the chain doesn’t work, the whole session suffers.

Our new guide takes you through the full pupil journey, from arriving and getting changed, to transferring into the water, and back out to shower and dress. It includes a stage-by-stage checklist covering key questions to ask at each step.

Read the full guide here:

A hydrotherapy pool equipment checklist for SEN schools: hoisting, changing, access, safety, storage and plant, plus how to phase and budget the project.

26/10/2026

22 fatal incidents involving patient hoists and slings were reported to the MHRA between 2015 and 2025.

In September, the MHRA issued a National Patient Safety Alert (NatPSA/2026/005/MHRA). Every organisation using patient hoists now has five actions to complete by 16 September 2027:

1. Standardised pre-use checks, with a pause once the hoist takes the load
2. A documented record of which slings are compatible with which hoists
3. A full inventory of every hoist and sling, including community equipment
4. LOLER examination and servicing, with overdue hoists removed from service
5. Role-specific training, with records kept

For most care settings, the question isn’t whether staff use hoists safely day to day. It’s whether you can show it, on record, for every hoist and every sling.

We’ve built a free 2-minute check that takes you through each action and shows where the gaps are. See the link in comments to check your organisation is ready.

21/10/2026

We’re at Education Estates 2026 today!

The Innova team are heading to Manchester Central and we’re looking forward to catching up with familiar faces and meeting new ones.

We have a busy diary of meetings and we’d love to fit in a few more. If you’re working on a new build or refurbishment for an SEN school, we'd be glad to chat to you about:

💧 Hydrotherapy pools
🚿 Hygiene rooms and changing equipment
🛗 Ceiling track hoists
🍳 Accessible life skills kitchens
🚽 Changing Places toilets
🛠️ Servicing & maintenance plans

If you’re at the event it would be great to see you there!

19/10/2026

What a special evening! 🪩✨

On Friday, Jodie and Katie from the Innova team were delighted to attend the Martin House Glitter Ball at Rudding Park, alongside our friends at P+HS Architects. It was a wonderful night celebrating the incredible work Martin House does for children, young people and their families, and we managed to grab a photo with Sir Gareth Southgate too!

One of the most moving moments of the night was a speech from Mehreen, mum to Ava, who is cared for by Martin House. Mehreen spoke about the family’s time in the hydrotherapy pool together:

“Ava absolutely loved it and it was wonderful to see her have so much interaction with her sisters. It might sound like a simple thing, going swimming together as a family, but for us it really was a first, and it felt like a really special moment that Martin House made possible.”

We’re incredibly proud to have provided the pool at Martin House Children's Hospice, and hearing first-hand the difference it makes to families like Ava’s is exactly why we do what we do. 🧡

Thank you to Martin House for a fantastic evening and to P+HS Architects for the great company!

16/10/2026

A huge thank you to everyone who came along to our talk at Healthcare Estates.

We had a fantastic day reconnecting with familiar faces and meeting new ones. It’s clear there’s a huge amount of energy around the New Hospital Programme and major builds across the country, and we’re excited to continue those conversations.

If you weren't able to join us, there’s still a chance to see it all in action. We are running a free Hoisting Innovation Workshop at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, where you can:

- See how the hoist systems work in a real hospital setting
- Hear from the physios who use them every day
- Learn about the hoisting decisions made at Midland Met, and the reasons behind them

Register your interest here:

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0z7k9R0

13/10/2026

Most hygiene room headaches aren’t actually caused by the wrong decisions, they are caused by the right decisions made in the wrong order!

That's why we’ve put together a brand new step-by-step guide to specifying a hygiene room for an SEN school.

It walks you through every decision in the order it needs to be made, so the room works for pupils and staff from day one.

Have a read of our new guide here:

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0y-BVt0

08/10/2026

England's first NHS National Rehabilitation Centre is open, and we're proud to have played our part.

The brand new 70-bed NRC at the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate is helping people regain their independence after life-changing illness or injury.

It was our pleasure to run a training session on site to make sure the team feel confident with the equipment from day one. Thank you to the brilliant staff for getting stuck in and for having us on board. This is a fantastic facility that will make a huge difference to people's lives.

Check out the full case study here:
https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yW8rc0

07/10/2026

Just 1 week to go until Healthcare Estates 2026!

On 14th October, our very own Joe Hulbert will be taking to the stage at Healthcare Estates 2026 in Manchester.

Midland Metropolitan University Hospital is one of the most significant new hospitals delivered in the UK in recent years, and behind a build of that scale sits an enormous amount of specialist equipment that has to be specified, coordinated, installed and handed over without disrupting the programme.

In his talk, "Managing Specialist Equipment Complexity in Major Healthcare Builds: Lessons from Midland Metropolitan University Hospital", Joe will share what we learned first-hand on the project.

We hope to see you there!

05/10/2026

We love hearing feedback like this! The team at East Cheshire Hospice have had their new Essenza beds from Innova for just a few months, and they're already seeing a real difference for their patients.

Seeing equipment make care safer and more comfortable, so quickly, is exactly why we do what we do. A huge thank you to the East Cheshire Hospice team for sharing their experience with us 🧡

Watch the full video to hear from the team about the features that matter most on the ward:

https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yNbLY0

01/10/2026

What should a hospice bedroom feel like?

That was the question St Giles Hospice set out to answer. They wanted two "gold standard" rooms that would set the benchmark for every future bedroom across the hospice.

See how Innova brought together the bedroom design, en-suite refurbishment, clinical requirements, bespoke joinery and specialist fixtures, delivered as one seamless solution.

The full case study and project gallery are now live on our website:
https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yLLw10