RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

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.

The Max 4 therm system from Royalle Underfloor Heating Supplies is said to be “the thinnest, strongest and lightest underfloor heating system currently available”.

Verifying the inservice accuracy of electrical medical safety analysers is said to be quick and easy with the IEC 60601 Checkbox now available from Rigel Medical.

St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London has specified Leaderflush Shapland Plasform Unique doorsets for its new oncology unit.

London’s Cromwell Hospital has installed a Siemens Axiom Artis dMP for fluoroscopy and angiography procedures.

Staff at North West Wales NHS Trust can now instantly access key information on a wide range of estates issues following the deployment of SQL Core 5 and Purchase Order software from Gramms across the Trust’s three main operating centres.

While time flow taps are used increasingly in commercial and public buildings, both for water and energy savings and to address growing concerns about possible cross-contamination, the hand pressure required to operate them can present difficulties for the very young or old.