FEATURE ARTICLES

The role of the AE (Decontamination) examined, in the first of a series of planned articles on the work of IHEEM’s four Authorising Engineer Registers.

A recruit to IHEEM’s Medical Devices Technology Platform describes an interesting career, and explains what he feels should be the Platform’s major areas of focus going forward.

In his inaugural Presidential Address, IHEEM’s new President, Peter Sellars, set out his goals, and looked at how the Institute can further develop in the short to medium term.

A conference in Nottingham addressed the potential impact of digital technology and medical devices on addressing productivity and patient safety challenges.

Modular boilers with large turndown ratio and wide differential temperatures between the flow and return are rising in popularity, reports a British commercial boiler manufacturer.

An expert look at the key changes within the DH’s recently updated decontamination guidance for surgical instruments and endoscopes in HTM 01-01 and HTM 01-06.

Last month’s IHEEM Awards Dinner in Manchester recognised innovation, flair, and expertise, in areas ranging from carbon saving to product design and architecture.

Healthcare Estates 2016 saw the launch of a new blueprint for Emergency Department Repeatable Rooms, as an architect member of the Repeatable Rooms ‘Core Team’ explains.

A Vancouver architect describes the highly positive impact of a new emergency department at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital in British Columbia in Canada.

A look at a major wayfinding and signage project being undertaken at Australia’s Royal Perth Hospital, in an article first published in The Australian Hospital Engineer.

At Healthcare Estates 2016, the DH’s director-general of Finance gave a candid assessment of the current state of NHS finances, and presented his view on how the healthcare estates and facilities community can contribute effectively to the drive to ‘constrain cost growth’.

A system that uses electrochemical activation to provide ‘ongoing and consistent disinfection’ of a healthcare facility’s water system described.

Low temperature sterilisation could meet the conflicting demands of tougher infection control guidelines and ever more delicate medical devices.

With continuing pressures on A&E Departments, a US expert examines how design teams might re-think configurations to add capacity.

Standby generator users can amortise their outlay on these substantial pieces of equipment and, in the process, cut their overall electricity costs.

Two expert writers highlight some of the problems with existing wording and phraseology in guidance and standards documents.

A bedstacker designed to stop empty beds being left in hospital corridors is the latest innovation from a Salisbury Trust.

An architect explains some of the key stages of actually implementing and using BIM.

Planning and managing electrical compliance in line with BS7671 can be challenging, but there are systems available to help.

Two academics discuss the growing potential for smart sensor technology to monitor and detect airborne infection in hospitals