Plymouth firm clocks up 100 years of local service

The five strong team at Salts Medilink, a medical dispensing branch based in Plympton, have between them clocked up 100 years of service. 

The group received a visit from their owner and Company Director to acknowledge their long standing tenure, and attend a patient Open Day at the Holiday Inn in celebration of this.

Salts Medilink is a discreet, confidential and reliable stoma care and continence home delivery service and is part of the Salts Healthcare Group. Salts Healthcare began in 1701 and manufactures award-winning orthotic devices and stoma care products for distribution across the globe.  Currently run by three tenth-generation brothers with its headquarters in Birmingham, it is the UK’s oldest family run healthcare business.  The staff at the Plymouth centre together with a team of community stoma care nurses provide support and specialist care, and operate a local home delivery operation.

Robert Salt, Director of Salts Healthcare, said “As a company we are very proud of our long-standing service records.  Our people are the single most important part of the business as without them we wouldn’t be able to offer our customers the high level of service and support they need.  As a medical dispensing company, many of our customers require discreet, empathic advice.  By having a local team who have a vast amount of experience and expertise our customers in the Plymouth area truly have an asset and I’m very humbled to visit the team and see how they have all contributed to the business.”

Yvonne Hampton, Manager of the Plymouth Salts Medilink Centre said: “Salts is a family owned business and I know it sounds like a cliché but we really do feel like one big family.  To clock up so many years with a small team shows that we love our jobs because we feel like we make a difference to our customers in the local area.”

Salts Medilink is a British family-owned company offering a personal stoma product home delivery service operated by dedicated and fully-trained staff from a network of regional customer care centres across the UK.  Salts Medilink offers this personal service through a 365 day a year home delivery service via a 24-hour online ordering facility supported by 24-hour emergency freephone. For more information on Salts Medilink call Freephone 0800 626388.

Photo: Left to right: Yvonne Hampton (Centre manager)  28 - years; Gail Perrin - 15 years; John Arrowsmith – 6 months; Linda Matthews – 27 years; Dawn Chadwick – 21 years; Lisa Harrison – 11 years; Anne-Marie Pickerill – 3 years. Missing from photo is Sue Jackson, 25 years. Missing from photo – Sue Jackson – 25 years.