Liko

Articles and Case Studies

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  Liko helps children at the Cheviot View Centre

  The world famous Likorall overhead tracking system from Liko is making a tremendous difference at the Cheviot View Centre in Newbiggin Hall, Newcastle.

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  Students enjoy rebound therapy thanks to Liko

  Sir Charles Parsons School is a secondary school based in Newcastle upon Tyne for students with special educational needs including severe or profound disabilities, multiple learning difficulties, challenging behaviours, sensory impairment and communication difficulties.

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  Life made simple at the West of England school and college

  Over the past 10 years, Liko, the UK’s leading provider of patient lifting solutions, has installed in excess of 60 Likorall systems throughtout The West of England School and College for young people with little or no sight.

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  Liko equipment enables all children to enjoy the Alan Shearer Centre

  Liko hoisting and tracking systems play a unique part in ensuring The Alan Shearer Centre can realise its goal of being accessible to all children, regardless of disability.

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  Success for Liko Competence training trial

  Training programmes and seminars have proven to be a very effective way of increasing awareness and spreading knowledge of how to work safely with patient transfers in the care sector. With this in mind, Liko, with the help of Liko Competence, decided to run a trial session with a view to rolling out a full programme.

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  Liko helps reduce man hours and costs at the Christie NHS trust

  The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Greater Manchester, one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, has been using Likorall gantry system, Solo slings and UltraStretch in its mortuary for over three years.

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  They learn to think - beforehand

  – Now after the course, we are using the overhead lift more often and taking better care of ourselves. We stop to think beforehand, says Susanna Berglund, head of unit and responsible for working environment at the orthopaedic ward at Sunderby Hospital in Luleå, Sweden.

• Safe Lifting License for Everybody in Staffanstorp

  The domino effect: First, three instructors were trained, and then they in turn trained 182 caregivers. An attentive application for local development funds has given almost all of the caregivers in the Scanian town Staffanstorp the Safe Lifting Licence®. – We have received very high evaluations from those who have taken the course, says section leader Ingegärd Florin.

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  With the right aid, the kilos are sliding of Karin

  Karin Fälldin was so overweight that the personnel at the Örnsköldsvik Hospital in Sweden did not dare to help her out of bed. The name of the solution was Viking L and with this Karin was finally able to stand up. Thanks to the Liko lift, her rehabilitation has been incredibly fast.
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  RepoSheets lift the staff at Göransgården

  Manual transferring of patients in bed used to be a strenuous operation for the staff at Göransgården. Occupational therapist Cecilia Fransson found a surprisingly simple solution – a green sheet.

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  Anita sees the risks with heavy patients

  Anita Rush works as Clinical Nurse Specialist (responsible for Aid Service in the local government) in Berkshire, England, an area with many bariatric patients. More than 10 years ago, when Anita met her first bariatric patient, she realized that knowledge in the field was missing. She decided to acquire it by herself. 

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  Increase in the incidence of MRSA in Sweden - Solo in the fight against the "Super Bug"

  There were two massive outbreaks of the dreaded "Super Bug", MRSA, in 2005 at the University Hospital in Linköping, Sweden. Both patients and personnel were struck, wards were closed and admission of new patients was stopped. We went there to find out what has happened since then. Read more »

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  A Bus for All

  Such a simple thing as travelling on a bus can be practically impossible for those with a disability. It shouldn't be like that. And it is no longer like that, thanks to "A bus for All".

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  Stand for Life

  – It feels good to be able to stand on my own legs again; now I stand for six to seven minutes at least once a day, says a both proud and satisfied Valter. This doesn't sound like much, perhaps, but his wife testifies as to how good it is for Valter to stand up and how much it means. But she thinks it is a bit unbelievable.

• Camera!

  Liko is an expansive company, and we have once again constructed new premises in the
  little village of Alvik, Sweden, where we have our head office. This time we have also built a big film and photo studio. In order to explain the function of our products, we produce a lot of information material, including some instruction films.

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  Swedish Successes in China

  In the vibrant city of Peking, there is something as unexpected as a Swedish care home. Or, to be correct, a Chinese care home of Swedish design.

• Knowledge with a click!

  Do you want to keep an eye on the latest in lifting and transferring news? In that case you are in good company, as almost all of your colleagues want that, too. In order to satisfy this need, Liko has developed an e-mail letter, the Liko Update.

• New training premises near you

  This year Liko has moved premises in four places in Sweden, in order to be able to offer better-suited premises for courses, customer meeting, workshops, etc.