What are Mobile Healthcare Units?
Mobile healthcare units are a vital tool in the healthcare industry, offering additional flexibility for community-based and out-of-hospital care, ensuring continuity of care during refurbishment works, and boosting clinical capacity whenever necessary.
However, when access to medical gas is required, this can sometimes pose a challenge. Because these units are detached from the main hospital building, running a gas pipeline to connect them to a mains supply is usually impossible. MIG’s Podserve units resolve this issue.
New innovations for mobile healthcare units
Units with access to medical gas are a lot more versatile in terms of the medical procedures that can be carried out within them. This is why MIG has created PodServe, a containerised healthcare solution that provides medical gas support for a wide range of different healthcare units, such as endoscopy trailers, mobile dental facilities, eye clinics, etc.
With PodServe, these units have the option of medical gas support built to HTM 02-01 healthcare standards, enabling them to offer additional services that would otherwise be limited to hospitals. PodServe offers containerised gas pods for smaller-scale mobile units, as well as modular plant rooms for large-scale, containerised medical gas support.
With access to a specialist gas system, mobile healthcare units can offer far more value for patients while improving their flexibility.
MIG can also work with NHS Trusts or estates teams to create a modular gas support system that is bespoke to their needs.
A temporary solution providing long-lasting results
With the help of PodServe, mobile healthcare units can be deployed in remote parts of the world where patients cannot travel to hospitals or access to quality healthcare is limited or non-existent. By providing medical gas support to these mobile facilities, PodServe is able to mitigate healthcare disparities, allowing healthcare providers to reach communities that may previously lack adequate medical services.
Mobile healthcare facilities can also be used in densely populated areas to provide a quick, temporary solution while the main site is temporarily shut down, or to help clear patient backlogs.
For areas requiring a larger-scale gas solution, PodServe’s containerised plant rooms can also be used to supply a reliable gas supply to permanent modular constructions that are separate from the main hospital gas pipeline, such as endoscopy suites.
The future of mobile healthcare units
As Trusts are increasingly required to deliver a more adaptable healthcare service, they face the question of how to supply sufficient medical gas systems in order to accommodate their growing estate.
The flexibility and scalability of PodServe enables Trusts to ensure their mobile healthcare units are just as effective as permanent constructions.
PodServe plant rooms and gas pods can last for years if maintained correctly, and they are much easier to maintain and modify than fitted gas pipelines.
These mobile units could also play a major role in reducing carbon outputs, as they can be designed to incorporate renewable energy sources and more energy-efficient technology.
See how PodServe could revolutionise your mobile healthcare
With MIG’s expertise and PodServe products, mobile units can be adapted in line with stakeholder healthcare strategies like never before, making them a reliable and valuable asset in the healthcare industry.
With their flexibility, customisation options, and potential to promote health equity and sustainable healthcare solutions, mobile healthcare units are a promising innovation that could revolutionise industry approaches to healthcare provision.
Reach out to a member of our team to see how PodServe could improve your healthcare provision strategy.
