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Integrity Lift Compliance

Sector — Healthcare

LOLER Inspections for Healthcare & NHS Estates

Hospital lifting equipment cannot simply be taken out of service for a morning. Theatre access, bed transfer and mortuary routes all depend on plant that is also legally required to be examined on a six-monthly cycle. We schedule around clinical demand rather than against it.

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What Makes This Sector Different

The compliance pressures specific to healthcare and NHS estates

Patient-carrying plant is on the six-month cycle

Passenger lifts, bed lifts, patient hoists and bath hoists all lift people, so LOLER Regulation 9 puts them on a six-monthly thorough examination — not the twelve months that applies to goods-only plant. On a large estate that is a lot of statutory dates to hold.

Access windows are clinical, not administrative

A lift serving theatres or a bed-transfer route can rarely be isolated on demand. We plan examinations around ward and theatre schedules, including out-of-hours attendance where a daytime isolation is not clinically possible.

CQC and HSE both look at the same paperwork

Reports of Thorough Examination form part of the evidence an estates team relies on under CQC scrutiny as well as HSE. A report written to be defensible is worth more than one written to be quick.

Equipment We Examine

Typical Healthcare & NHS Plant

Our Experience Here

Why we say this

Mark's career includes NHS estates work, and our published endorsement comes from a Critical Healthcare Estates Manager at Barts Health NHS Trust.

Who enforces here

HSE. Hospitals and NHS premises are HSE-enforced, so a Report of Thorough Examination here may be read by an HSE inspector rather than a council officer.

Healthcare · Central London

Passenger Lift Programme on a Critical Healthcare Estate

A hospital estate is the hardest environment in which to run a lift examination programme, and not for engineering reasons. The lifts cannot simply be taken out of service: a bed lift serving theatres, a lift feeding an imaging suite, or the only accessible route to a ward are each a clinical problem the moment they stop. The estate is also rarely uniform — traction, machine-room-less and hydraulic units of different ages and different manufacturers accumulate across decades of building work, so a single examination approach does not fit the whole portfolio. On top of that, examination is statutory at six months and there is no mechanism for deferring it because the ward is busy.

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Further reading for healthcare and NHS estates duty-holders

How Often Are LOLER Inspections Required?
Six months for equipment that lifts people and for lifting accessories, twelve months for everything else, or in line with a written examination scheme drawn up by a competent person. That is the whole rule. What catches duty-holders out is rarely the interval itself — it is when the clock starts, what resets it, and the examinations that fall outside the cycle altogether.
What Is a LOLER Inspection?
A LOLER inspection — properly a thorough examination — is a systematic engineering assessment of lifting equipment by a competent person, to establish whether it is safe to remain in service. It is not a visual walk-round and it is not a service visit. This is what one actually involves.
LOLER Record Keeping: How Long to Keep Your Reports
LOLER 1998 Regulation 11 requires duty-holders to keep records of every Thorough Examination. As a working rule: keep reports for lifting equipment for as long as it stays in service, and for lifting accessories for at least two years.

Trusted by Critical Estates

Independent. Defensible. Genuinely Endorsed.

SAFed-aligned defect classification, and the endorsement below is a genuine NHS Trust quote — not stock marketing copy.

NHS
NHS
Critical estate passenger lift compliance experience
SK
Skanska
Construction & engineering compliance support
A·B·C
SAFed-Aligned Defect Grading
Defects graded A, B or C to the published SAFed severity scale — a grading standard we follow, not a membership we hold
DBS
Enhanced DBS
Director Mark Crowley holds an enhanced DBS check
NHS Trust Endorsement
“Exceptional response times and thorough documentation. Managing compliance across multiple critical medical estates is complex, but their team makes statutory lift auditing seamless.”
Phillip Nai
Critical Healthcare Estates Manager
Barts Health NHS Trust

Common Questions

Healthcare & NHS Estates — Common Questions

Do you carry out LOLER inspections for healthcare and NHS estates?

Yes. Mark's career includes NHS estates work, and our published endorsement comes from a Critical Healthcare Estates Manager at Barts Health NHS Trust. We examine the classes of plant listed on this page, and every survey is scoped by an engineer with a background in that equipment.

Patient-carrying plant is on the six-month cycle — what does that mean in practice?

Passenger lifts, bed lifts, patient hoists and bath hoists all lift people, so LOLER Regulation 9 puts them on a six-monthly thorough examination — not the twelve months that applies to goods-only plant. On a large estate that is a lot of statutory dates to hold.

Access windows are clinical, not administrative — what does that mean in practice?

A lift serving theatres or a bed-transfer route can rarely be isolated on demand. We plan examinations around ward and theatre schedules, including out-of-hours attendance where a daytime isolation is not clinically possible.

CQC and HSE both look at the same paperwork — what does that mean in practice?

Reports of Thorough Examination form part of the evidence an estates team relies on under CQC scrutiny as well as HSE. A report written to be defensible is worth more than one written to be quick.

Are you independent of maintenance contractors?

Yes. We do not sell maintenance, repairs, spares or replacement plant, so a defect recorded in a Report of Thorough Examination is never a quotation in disguise. For a duty-holder presenting compliance evidence to an insurer, a client or the HSE, that separation is worth being able to state plainly.

Request a Healthcare & NHS Compliance Survey

Tell us what you have and where. We'll reply within one business hour, and you'll deal with an engineer familiar with healthcare and NHS estates.

Already have an asset list or examination schedule? Email it to info@integrityliftcompliance.co.uk and we'll come back with a survey plan rather than ask you to retype it.

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