Portering services

Hospital Portering
Porters provide services to meet the needs of patients, staff, visitors and other users at Antrim Area Hospital; Ballymena Health and Care Centre, Braid Valley Hospital, Ballymena; Causeway Hospital, Coleraine; Mid Ulster Hospital, Magherafelt; Moyle Hospital, Larne and Whiteabbey Hospital sites.

Portering Services are provided in:

• Wards
• Departments
• Laboratories
• Public areas
• Office accommodation
• Staff accommodation

At certain sites there are specific porters to meets the needs of certain departments. These departmental porters are located in:

• Emergency Departments
• Theatres
• Radiology
• Laboratories
• Pharmacy

Portering Services provide a support service to all departments within the hospital. The range of services is extensive but they can mainly be grouped into certain categories. These are:

• Patient transfers
• Meal deliveries
• Waste transfer (Clinical and non-clinical)
• Postal services
• Medical gases
• Specimen collections
• Record transfers/retrieval
• Pharmacy collections/deliveries
• Stores
• Mortuary services
• Linen services
• Catering transfers

Support Services Managers on each site also have responsibility for the security of their respective sites.

Community portering

A community Portering service is provided at Holywell Hospital.

Services:

• Postal services
• Waste transfer
• Stores
• Pharmacy collection/delivery
• Delivery of linen to wards
• Medical gases
• Record transfers
• Catering transfers
• Furniture/equipment moves (Holywell Hospital only)