Platform Lifts For Nursing Homes
Safe, reliable, and dignified access for every resident.
At Alliance Platform Lifts, we supply and install platform lift solutions for nursing homes designed to support mobility, independence, and day-to-day care. Our lifts are carefully specified to provide smooth, dependable operation while meeting the practical demands of care environments and maintaining a calm, reassuring experience for residents, staff, and visitors alike.
Our Healthcare Lifts
Our Healthcare lifts
Whether you operate a hospital, clinic, or care home, Alliance Platform Lifts provides a comprehensive range of high-quality, long-lasting lift solutions designed to meet the demands of healthcare environments. Our portfolio includes both platform lifts and cabin platform lifts, offering safe, reliable access for patients, residents, staff, and visitors, while supporting dignity, comfort, and ease of movement throughout the building. Our APL2 Heavy Duty Cabin Lift with internal dimensions of up to 1,700mm x 1,500mm and 1,500kg capacity provides the ideal solution for a low pit, low headroom bed lift, stretcher lift or general goods/passenger lift.
Behind the scenes, we also design and install goods lifts that help healthcare facilities operate efficiently. From transporting essential medical equipment and supplies to moving meals, linen, and waste, a dependable goods lift plays a vital role in maintaining smooth day-to-day operations.
Benefits of Lifts in Hospitals, Care Homes and Clinics
Alliance Platform Lifts has extensive experience delivering safe, compliant lift solutions for healthcare environments, including NHS hospitals, private clinics, and care homes across London, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire, Sussex, and Surrey. Installing the right lift plays a vital role in supporting patient care, staff efficiency, and day-to-day operations.
The benefits of installing lifts in healthcare buildings include:
Improved health and safety, reducing manual handling risks and supporting safer patient movement
Enhanced accessibility, providing dignified, step-free access for patients, residents, visitors, and wheelchair users
Fast, reliable operation, essential in time-critical NHS and healthcare environments
Bespoke, regulation-compliant solutions, tailored to the specific operational and clinical needs of each facility
Bespoke Healthcare Lifts
Depending on the type of healthcare facility, it’s likely that you’ll have a wide range of needs, requirements and preferences that will need to be taken into consideration. From ensuring that the dimensions of your lift accommodate stretchers to considering the sensory elements of the interior design, our lifts are tailored to suit the specific needs of your healthcare building. We can also make doors wider and lower cabin button lifts.
Our team will spend time getting to know you, your building and your needs to design the perfect lift solution for you. Our dedicated projects team will then get to work to ensure that the installation process runs smoothly.
Complete Turnkey Service
To ensure a smooth and efficient project, Alliance Platform Lifts provides a full turnkey service for healthcare lift installations. From initial consultation and specialist surveys through to all associated building works, electrical installation, lift fitting, commissioning, and aftercare, our experienced team manages every stage of the process. This single-point approach reduces disruption, ensures compliance, and delivers a dependable lift solution that healthcare providers can rely on with confidence.
Lift Aftercare Services for Care Homes, Hospitals and Clinics
Here at Alliance Platform Lifts, not only are we pleased to offer a wide range of lifts that cater to varying needs in healthcare establishments but we also offer a fantastic 24/7 aftercare service too.
Platform Lift Installation for Healthcare Establishments
Looking for a trusted lift company experienced in healthcare environments? Alliance Platform Lifts specialises in improving accessibility within hospitals, clinics, and care homes, delivering expertly installed platform lift solutions across London, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire, Sussex, and Surrey.
For further information or to request a quotation, please contact us to speak to an experienced member of our team.
Support every step of the way
Our service is a start-to-finish, top-to-bottom one for anyone who is seeking to have a cabin lift created and fitted in their property. Our team operates in accordance with the following three-step process:
Design & Planning
We work closely with our clients to deliver the right platform lift solution from start to finish. Our process begins with a specialist site survey to assess your property and requirements, followed by collaborative design and specification to ensure the lift is perfectly suited to your requirements.
Installation
Our dedicated projects team is meticulous in their approach, providing detailed survey reports and ensuring that any works carried out by your builders (or ours) are carefully reviewed and checked. This attention to detail helps guarantee a smooth, efficient lift installation and ensures everything is in place before installation begins.
Maintenance
We provide comprehensive aftercare and ongoing support for all our clients, supported by cost-effective service and maintenance packages to keep your lift operating safely and reliably. For complete peace of mind, our 24/7 emergency call-out service is always available, ensuring prompt, expert assistance whenever it’s needed.
Get in touch to discuss your lift requirements
Frequently asked questions
With a product range that’s designed around versatility, we can build a platform lift that’s crafted specifically to your requirements and the space you have available. Give us a call today to discuss your needs.
The standard weight capacity for a vertical platform lift is 400kg. The maximum weight capacity for our lifts is 1,500kg, therefore we can tailor our solution to meet your specific requirements.
The required headroom varies for each lift model, however, this is usually somewhere between 2,200mm and 2,300mm for our vertical platform lifts and 2,600mm/2,700mm for our APL1 Elite Cabin Lift and APL2 Heavy Duty Cabin Lift complete with automatic sliding doors and single press operation.
The maximum travel of our vertical lifts varies for each model, however, the maximum for our range is 18m.
No. Our lifts offer a high level of configurational flexibility and can be specified with multiple entry and exit arrangements to suit the building layout and access requirements. Available configurations include:
Single entry (access and exit from the same side)
Through car (entry on one side and exit directly opposite)
Adjacent entry (entry and exit at 90 degrees)
Three-sided entry (access available from three sides of the lift)
These options allow the lift to be integrated efficiently into complex floor plans while supporting safe, convenient circulation within both residential and commercial buildings.
The maximum legal speed is 0.15 meters per second.
No – although we prefer a small pit (between 60mm and 120 mm deep), we can easily fit a small ramp if this is not possible.
We can either work with your chosen builder or we can carry out all the work ourselves. Our complete turn key solution keeps project timing to a minimum and our dedicated Project Manager will keep you informed at every stage of the process.
The lead time from order through to installation can vary depending on the product. In some urgent cases we have manufactured and installed lifts within a few weeks! The fitting process again depends on the type of lift but most installations generally take between 2 and 5 days, depending on the complexity of the project.
No – all of our platform lifts run off single phase 240v power supply. For the heavier duty requirements – 1,000kg+ three phase power will be required.
All of our vertical platform lifts come with battery-powered emergency lowering, which will slowly lower the platform to the ground floor in the event of a power outage. In addition, all our lifts are fitted with an emergency communication device directly linked to our 24/7 service and maintenance team.
