RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Renowned for its specialised technical training in the healthcare and commercial FM sectors, training and conference centre Eastwood Park, in Falfield, Gloucestershire, has launched a new identity.

Vernacare’s latest powerful cleaning and disinfecting wipe is said to be kind to the hands, yet eradicates the major five major pathogen groups, including Clostridium difficile, MRSA and E. Coli.

llluminex’s new Xscape emergency lighting range exploits the latest solid state light source and battery technologies.

Wellburn Care Homes, a family-run business which operates 12 care homes in Yorkshire and Northumberland accommodating around 500 residents, has selected Samuel Heath’s Perko Powermatic concealed, controlled door closer for room and access doors in its care homes.

Balfour Beatty reckons it saved between £60,000 and £80,000 when building the £6.4 million Child Development Centre in Hackney by using the Celcon Thin- Joint System from H+H UK.

BridgeHead Software says its new PACStore archiving product will “help reduce the accelerating storage hardware and management burden imposed by the long-term retention and protection of PACS medical image data”.

Streamlining the workflow and improving the availability of intravenous (IV) pumps within the hospital environment is the key goal of a radio frequency identification (RFID) pilot project being rolled out by Siemens and Airedale NHS Trust in West Yorkshire at Airedale General Hospital.

Knauf Drywall plasterboard is playing functional and decorative roles in the redevelopment of Barts and The London hospitals, currently Europe’s largest private finance initiative (PFI) in healthcare.

DDC Dolphin plans next month to launch a “two-stage, no-hand touch” combined pulp bedpan macerator and bedpan support washer-disinfector designed to help eliminate healthcareacquired infections both at initial bedpan disposal and via subsequent hand cross-contamination.

Construction and housebuilding business Galliford Try has appointed former customer director for Taylor Woodrow’s FM Division Karen Loughrey (pictured) as business development manager for Galliford Try Facilities Management.

Unotron, which reportedly invented the first washable PC computer keyboard, has launched a “super light” key technology across its latest boards.

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, in Hackney, East London, has placed the UK’s first order for a new direct digital radiography system with wireless detector from Siemens, the Ysio wi-D.

Australia’s largest listed health information technology company, IBA Health Group, has announced that one of the UK’s leading independent healthcare services providers, General Healthcare Group (GHG), is to license and implement iSOFT’s patient management systems at its 47 BMI Healthcare private acute care hospitals and Netcare UK centres in a deal worth £5 million over six years.

eXitfinder is the latest addition to Fireco’s System X, the “smart” communication system that automatically signals a fire alarm condition to all the company’s linked X products, including Dorgard X and Deafgard X.

A Gradus carpet said to be both “exceptionally hardwearing” and “sustainable” has been installed throughout Birmingham’s new Finch Road Health Centre, helping to provide a welcoming, attractive patient and staff environment.

VtV Solutions, a “specialist in ventilation to validation”, claims that not only are many healthcare facilities’ ultra-clean ventilation systems (UCVs) not regularly, or properly, serviced, but that, rather than being replaced due to failure to meet the latest standards, existing units up to 15 years old can often be effectively and economically upgraded to give years’ more service.

Staff on the burns unit at Whiston Hospital, part of St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust, which “pioneered” the use of cleaning hand gel for ward visitors 11 years ago, have taken their infection prevention strategy a further step forward by using Vernaclean’s new Indicator tape to audit their cleaning procedures.

JG Speedfit’s new Network Controlled Underfloor Heating System “differs from “conventional underfloor systems” in that the electrical components are “networked” together using computer network cable.

Ascom Wireless Solutions and the Wandsworth Group have signed a distribution agreement that will see Wandsworth offer Ascom’s range of healthcare-oriented paging, IP DECT and WiFi communication products alongside its own nurse call and bedside computing systems.

West Midlands-based ECO-Logic UK has supplied a programmable water management system for the i-House, a traditional West Bromwich Victorian terraced house refurbished using intelligent technology and “accessfocused building design” to pioneer technologies for both sustainable and assisted living in an existing home for the first time in the UK.