Medical Fabric Suppliers: The Highest Quality for Healthcare

Published 9th October 2025

As we’ve seen in the recent headlines, choosing the wrong medical fabric supplier can be an expensive mistake. The UK Government successfully sued PPE Medpro after 103 out of 140 surgical gowns that they tested failed crucial safety tests.

Of course, not everyone has the legal resources of the national government, which means if your medical fabric suppliers let you down, you may never get your money back. That’s why it is essential to choose your medical suppliers carefully, to ensure that they have the experience and expertise, quality and capacity to meet your needs at the very highest standard each and every time.

Choosing the right medical textile suppliers is more than just a financial or a procurement decision; it impacts the safety of both your patients and your medical team. In this article, we’ll look at why quality is non-negotiable in medical fabrics, and why Redwood are the medical fabric suppliers of choice for hospitals, clinics and care homes across the UK and around the world.

Why the Quality of your Medical Textiles Matters

There is a lot at stake when it comes to choosing medical fabric suppliers, and you have a number of responsibilities to consider, including:

  • Protecting Patient and Staff Safety: The safety of staff and service users is important in any sector, but so much more so when it comes to the medical environment. According to the BMJ, healthcare-acquired infections alone cost the health service billions of pounds every year and result in tens of thousands of patient deaths. 

  • Redwood has a wide range of tried and tested medical fabrics designed to ensure the highest levels of safety, from infection control fabrics to PPE, from fabrics and mattresses for incontinence to slip and non-slip fabrics for safe patient moving and handling.

  • Ensuring Performance and Reliability in Critical Applications: As PPE Medpro discovered to their cost, both the NHS and private healthcare operators insist on the highest standards of performance from their medical fabrics, and unwavering reliability from their chosen medical fabric suppliers.

Redwood have decades of experience as medical fabric suppliers at the highest level, so you can count on us for performance and reliability in even the most demanding medical environments and applications.

  • Complying with Stringent Healthcare Regulations: Healthcare is one of the most strictly regulated sectors, with extensive standards that must be met at all times, without compromise, in order to achieve the necessary levels of compliance.  

Redwood have been working within the stringent regulatory regimes of the NHS and private healthcare for many years, and so we understand exactly what is required of our medical fabrics. Our design, development and quality compliance department can also provide the same confident compliance for many other markets around the world.

Make Redwood Your Trusted Medical Fabric Suppliers

As we’ve discussed above, Redwood more than makes the grade when it comes to medical fabrics, but that’s just the start. At Redwood, we think that safety, performance and compliance are the very least you should expect from your medical fabric suppliers. We think you should also demand so much more. That’s why, when you partner with Redwood, you’ll also get:

If you want to partner with medical fabric suppliers that you can trust, and avoid the costs and consequences of failing to make the grade, then talk to the team at Redwood today. We’ll make sure your medical fabrics protect your reputation as well as your staff and patients.

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