Cardiff, 14 November 2025 — At this year’s Advancing Healthcare Awards Cymru 2025 NAMDET’s Chair Paul Lee, and the team from Swansea Bay University Health Board, won first place for their pioneering e-learning course on risk around beds, bed rails, and patient transfer trolleys. The announcement was made during the ceremony in Cardiff, hosted by the Academy for Healthcare Science alongside AHP national leads. NAMDET’s entry—also highlighted in the July 2025 MDET Journal—focuses on mitigating risks stemming from the MHRA Patient Safety Alert on beds and related devices, offering comprehensive guidance to NHS, social care, and residential/homecare staff.
This award reinforces NAMDET’s established track record—having won in 2024 for their e-learning on medical gas safety—spotlighting continued UK-wide impact.
The winning team were praised for advancing patient safety and embedding digital learning frameworks into everyday practice. The award underscores NAMDET’s role in offering national patient safety guidance, with capacity for 350,000+ NHS users via platforms like Learning@Wales and ESR.
The multidisciplinary team tackled ongoing safety risks linked to medical beds, rails, grab handles, and turning devices. Working with clinical, technical, scientific, and educational experts across the UK, they created a free universal e-learning course on ESR, setting a new benchmark for patient safety and best practice.
The 30-minute course addresses critical knowledge gaps in the safe use of beds and related equipment, aligning with national safety guidance and industry standards. It was developed in collaboration with NHS experts, MHRA, NHSE, Kirklees Council, and industry partners, and refined through feedback from NAMDET’s UK-wide educators and trainers.
From left to right, Amanda Francis Medical Device Trainer/Coordinator, Claire Devine Section Lead Medical Device Training, Sara Gigg (nee Lewis-Simms) Head of Occupational Therapy, Jamie Oakes Senior Technologist MEMS; Medical Equipment Management Services, Paul Lee Consultant Clinical Scientist MEMS (Chair NAMDET), Carwyn Williams, Section Lead and Quality Manager MEMS, Sue Learmonth Locality Lead Occupational Therapy, Noel Harry Section Lead MEMS Morriston.
