Vanry B-10

The B-10 is aimed at care that happens outside a hospital building: discharge to home, community equipment loan stores, hospital-at-home and virtual ward placements, supported living, and small residential settings. Its case is population fit. The patient going home needs to sit up for meals and visitors, the family needs controls they can use on the first day, and the bedroom has no plan for medical wiring.

Care at home has an evidence base worth knowing, even though a bed is only one part of it. The 2024 Cochrane review of admission avoidance hospital at home pooled 20 randomised trials with 3,100 participants. It found little or no difference in six-month mortality and readmission. It also found that people treated at home were probably about half as likely to be living in residential care six months later, on moderate-certainty evidence. Those outcomes belong to whole services with clinical teams, and no bed produces them alone.

Within that picture, the bed does a narrow job well. A backrest to 70° and a 35° knee break let carers sit a patient up and keep them from sliding, and the calf section supports the legs; what it leaves out matters just as much at home. It has no height travel, so district nurses, therapists, and paid carers doing long tasks work at 500 mm, and it has no low position for patients at high falls risk. Services should match the bed to patients whose home care is mostly sitting, resting and eating.

NHS procurement routes, including community equipment framework contracts and public purchasing elsewhere, require a device class and a declaration of conformity. The conformity documentation those procurement routes require is issued by the manufacturer and shared by the enquiry team.

Nothing to plug in at the bedside

With no motor, cable, or battery, the bed goes into any bedroom, no matter where the sockets are. Nobody has to route a lead across the floor or remember to charge a handset.

Controls a family learns in one visit

Two handles, each moving one section, are the entire control set. A family carer who has seen it done once can repeat it.

Positions that survive a power cut

The backrest and knee rest hold wherever they were left, no matter what happens to the household supply.

Sitting up for meals and visitors

Backrest to 70°, knee rest to 35° and an adjustable calf section give a supported sitting position for eating, taking medicines and receiving visitors.

A 1950 × 900 mm platform

The platform takes a mattress 1950 mm long and 900 mm wide, with a depth chosen to suit any rails fitted.

Simple to recycle between placements

With no electrics to test and few wearing parts, a loan store can clean, check and reissue the bed quickly between patients.

Quiet in a shared house

Hand cranks run without motor noise, so adjusting the bed at night does not wake the rest of the household.

Low running costs over a long loan

Grease for two crank screws, occasional castor and brake servicing, and mattress replacement make up the whole running budget.

Backrest to 70°

The head section rises from flat to 70° (±5°), covering reclining, half-sitting and near-upright positions for eating and conversation.

Knee rest to 35°

The knee section lifts to 35° (±5°), bending under the thighs so a patient sitting up stays seated back on the platform.

Calf multi-position adjustment

Vanry lists a separate multi-position setting for the calf section, giving lower-leg support its own adjustment.

Two hand cranks

One crank drives the backrest and the other drives the knee rest, and each holds its section where the carer stops.

Fixed 500 mm height

The platform stays at 500 mm (±20 mm), so tables, chairs and commodes in the room line up with it the same way every time.

Frame of 2190 × 980 mm

Overall length is 2190 mm, and overall width is 980 mm (±20 mm). These are the figures to check against the doors and turns on the route into the home.

Platform of 1950 × 900 mm

The lying surface measures 1950 × 900 mm (±20 mm). A mattress to that size, and to rail height where rails are fitted, completes the bed.

Safe working load of 240 kg

Vanry rates the frame at 240 kg for everything on the deck. The manufacturer's labelling states the maximum patient weight.

Slotted deck sections

The photographed deck is made of slotted sections that articulate with the backrest and knee rest, letting air pass beneath the mattress.

Overbed table on a side column

Vanry's photograph shows a white overbed table carried on a column at the side of the frame. Whether it ships is set out on the packing list.

Blue-trimmed end panels and bumpers

The head and foot panels are moulded ABS with blue inserts, one topped by a grey grab bar, and blue bumpers guard the corners. They protect door frames and walls during moves.

Aluminium side rail

The photograph shows a side rail with vertical aluminium posts and a yellow release latch. The supplied rail configuration comes from the enquiry team.

Storage basket and four castors

A wire basket sits under the photographed frame, and each leg ends in a castor. Castor size and braking are in the manufacturer's configuration.

The B-10 suits discharge teams, community equipment services and families who need a bed at home that sits a patient up and asks nothing of the house's wiring. It fits placements where care is mostly resting, eating and receiving visitors. It is the wrong bed where nurses need height for long bedside tasks, where falls risk calls for a low platform, where the patient wants their own controls, and for children or small adults without BS EN 50637 rails. Before ordering, measure the access route and settle the rails, table, castors and mattress. Medigear.uk lists the B-10 for business buyers worldwide and can arrange delivery, installation, commissioning, familiarisation and service cover. Ask the enquiry team for the instructions for use, packing list, declaration of conformity, and maximum patient weight before ordering.