Benefits to hospitals using the Hydracare 'Beko';

Dehydrated patients recover slower. This fact alone gives a huge incentive for hospitals to take dehydration seriously.

Beko allows efficient hydration management through patient self administration. It allows nurses to keep track of patients water input even if they do not change the water themselves.

Cost saving in; nurse time, saved bed days and an increase in operation success, are examples of the monetary benefit the Hydracare Beko could bring to hospitals.

NHS Basic case study;

Hydracare should cost around £60. This cost is easily justifiable considering that each bed costs around £688 per day.(1)

If one device saved 5 bed days every year, the annual saving would be £3440.

If deployed throughout just 30,000 of the 38,000 NHS beds,(2) it would translate in to a saving in the region of £100m.

If this was deployed throughout the whole care industry, especially care homes and elderly living with carer support (500,000+ beds, UK) the effect would be truly tremendous.

(1) Figures based on average bed day cost - BAPEN – The cost of disease-related malunutrition in the UK and economic considerations for the use of ONS in adults. M.Elia, R.Stratton, C.Russell, C.Green, F.Pan

(2) Residents in communal medical and care establishments : 2001