An emergency rapid response specialist has supplied vital PPE to over 250 care homes across the UK within 24 hours of receiving a request for the ‘lifesaving’ equipment.
Voyage Care, which has 259 learning disability care homes throughout the UK, put out a call for additional suppliers of PPE.
ECO, which has set up a full COVID-19 emergency rapid response solutions operation, responded by supplying 70,000 surgical masks within 24 hours.
Lyndsay Beal, an operations manager at Voyage Care, said: “As the country struggles to source enough PPE, we wanted to expand our approved suppliers and to add to our stocks quickly.
Lyndsay Beal, an operations manager at Voyage Care, has sourced 70,000 surgical masks from ECO
“ECO had it transported to me within 24 hours. It’s good quality equipment, at a good price – they haven’t increased prices during this difficult time. It’s exactly what we needed and I’m pleased to be working with ECO. This equipment is a lifesaver.
“We have over 10,000 staff all over the UK, and keeping our staff and the people we support safe is our number one priority.
“We are following all the government guidelines. So being able to ensure we have a sustainable supply of PPE is really important for us, our staff and the people we support.
“We are also working with our procurement team to look at sourcing our hand sanitiser from ECO as well, which will also help us.
“I must praise our staff at Voyage Care as well. They have been fantastic through this and teams have all come together to support each other like one big family.”
The team at ECO, with bases in Cumbria and Scotland, are experts in rapid response solutions and pride themselves on ‘getting stuff done’.
ECO has set up a full COVID-19 rapid response solutions operation with a range of anti-virus sanitiser, PPE including masks and visors, testing kits, testing pods, medical beds, and emergency buildings.
It has already answered the call to help a factory, which has a government order for manufacturing vital material for visors for the NHS, to continue production 24/7 by supplying anti-virus sanitiser and an on-call emergency sanitising team.
Eddie Black, managing director of ECO, (pictured top) said: “When we heard thousands of care home staff and residents across the UK were struggling to source PPE we wanted to help.
“We have a secure supply of PPE, including surgical masks. We also have anti-virus sanitiser, and testing kits and testing pods, so we were happy to supply them what they needed.
“Care home staff all over the country – just like the NHS and other emergency workers – are doing an incredible job.
“If anyone needs our expertise, we will get our teams onto it immediately to achieve what needs to be done.”
Any organisation or business which would benefit from ECO’s help is asked to contact 01461 500 206 or email response@teameco.co.uk or visit www.teameco.co.uk for more information.
ECO’s team who are now supplying PPE to Voyage Care, which has 259 learning disability care homes throughout the UK. Please note this photograph was taken prior to social distancing regulations
