As part of a phased programme to switch from an owned to a rental fleet, Sunrise Senior Living UK has provided all 46 of its Sunrise and Gracewell residential care locations with access to Multi-Purpose Vehicles (MPVs) through Enterprise Flex-E-Rent.
This ensures staff can safely get to and from work since Covid-19. The vehicles are also being used for essential patient and resident travel. The MPVs were selected to enable social distancing for up to four people and each has a tail lift and two wheelchair points within, so they are ideal if a resident is wheelchair-bound.
Sunrise had already identified that leasing or rental offered greater benefits, including greater flexibility and reduced costs, over ownership. The lockdown accelerated the switch from a wholly owned fleet and Enterprise was able to source and deliver 36 seven-seat MPVs within two days at the end of March.
Sunrise Director of Procurement Chris Dean explained, “We immediately hired 36 seven-seaters from Enterprise for staff travel because we needed to safeguard our employees and offer an alternative to public transport. Now we are starting to replace the seven-seaters with nine-seat accessible minibuses with wheelchair access on a five-year contract hire model.
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