How To Choose The Best Medical Courier Service In the UK?

With the word ‘medical’ used in the title of this article, immediately you should be aware that this is a sector of the courier service industry that usually requires highly skilled couriers who have a wealth of experience behind them. The delivery of medical equipment is not the same as simply delivering a package as much of the time, other legacy equipment has to be removed, and the new equipment installed and left in fully operational condition. 

What does a medical courier do? 

The most important point to clarify about medical courier services is that they do not include the transportation of blood, organs or other living tissue. There is very specific licenses for such work and these licenses are not held by medical couriers in the UK. More specifically. Medical courier companies focus their services on the delivery of medical equipment, the ‘hardware’ necessary for patient care. 

Examples of items that fall under the remit of a medical delivery courier can include dental equipment, gas bottles, respiratory equipment, specialist beds, sterilising equipment and small-to-medium size pieces of equipment that weigh up to around a maximum 100kg. 

Beyond this, medical courier delivery does not simply involve the dropping off of a piece of equipment at a specific location and then leaving. A truly professional medical courier service will remove the previous equipment for recycling, install and make sure the new equipment is operational (where appropriate), remove all packaging and leave the premises looking as though they had never been there. 

Distribusha also works closely with pharmaceutical companies and research laboratories, so as a medical courier deliver company we also with the transport of chemicals and pharmaceuticals 

What is the importance of a reliable medical delivery courier in the UK? 

There is a simple overarching answer to this question, and that is patient wellbeing is at stake. However, reliable medical courier services are critical because in the UK it can take many, many months to get an appointment to see a specialist, and if a vital piece of medical equipment is out of action, then that can see further distressing delays for patients. Beyond the practical considerations, reliable medical courier services help to bolster the reputation of dentists, specialists and medical practices by ensuring that they are fully operational for the maximum time possible. 

Which factors should you consider when choosing a medical courier service? 

There are several factors to be taken into consideration when choosing a medical courier in the UK, some will be more relevant than others depending on the nature of the equipment or medical supplies being transported. Let’s have a look at some of the following factors to be taken into considerations: 

 

• • As previously mentioned, if you have medical waste, blood, organs or human tissue that needs transporting, you have to find a medical courier service with the appropriate licenses. At Distribusha we are a highly respected and reputable medical courier, and we operate accordingly. Consequently, if you have any of the above you require transporting, we will respectfully decline the request as we have no wish to damage our hard-earned reputation through unprofessional operating methods. 

 

• • If you are likely to require the receipt of or delivery of certain items within a 12-hour deadline, you need to make sure your medical courier service is available to you 24-hours a day and not just during standard office hours. Speed of delivery is often the most important factor when choosing a courier, as is an impeccable safety record. 

 

• • If your items are heavy, up to around 100kg in individual weight, you need to check of your chosen medical courier services have both the vehicles capable of transporting heavy loads, and the manpower to load and unload the equipment. 

 

• • If, for example, you are a supplier or manufacturer of medical equipment, you may want that equipment delivered and also installed, so that it is fully operational when your chosen medical courier leaves the premises. You will need to check that the medical courier staff have the training and experience in order to install that equipment. 

 

• • If you are going to need a medical courier on a regular basis, you want to check with your chosen courier if they offer discounts for regular or ‘contract’ deliveries or collections, and remember that reliability will be a crucial factor.  

 

• • If you supply medical goods across the UK, you need to check medical courier companies to see if they have a national distribution network and the ability to deliver your products anywhere in the UK in a timely manner. 

What makes Distribusha one of the best medical courier services in the UK? 

It takes time to become an established and reliable medical courier company. It takes time to establish a network that can cover the whole of the UK. It takes time to train staff and for them to obtain the requisite amount of experience in order to deliver and install highly valuable, essential and sensitive medical equipment. It takes time to build up trust with companies whose business depends on timely deliveries and total reliability. 

But above all else, what separates Distribusha from other medical courier services in the UK is that the company is still owned and run by its founder, and has not sold out to larger, impersonal nationwide medical courier companies. That means that in the rare event you have a problem or a critical delivery, there is every chance you will get to deal with ‘the man at to he to’, and if he says he can help you, he will do anything and everything withing his power to make sure everything will be okay. 

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