RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Barnsley Hospital patients can rest assured that their crockery will be properly washed and disinfected with the recent installation of 32 Miele Professional G7859 dishwashers across all the hospital’s wards.

Armstrong has extended its MBS integrated heating solutions range.

Now available from CK Consumables – part of City & Kent Cleaning – is a dispenser box into which visitors to healthcare facilities can quickly place their feet on entering for them to be quickly encapsulated in a pair of plastic overshoes which should contain any dirt bugs or bacteria within the shoes for the visit’s duration.

Besam is installing thirty automatic door systems for Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon as part of a £2.5 million ongoing refurbishment of six wards.

Hand hygiene specialist Gojo’s new TFX touch-free dispensing system can be used with all Gojo non-aerosol, foam soap and sanitiser products, and offers a completely contact-free method of dispensing, helping to minimise the spread of bacteria and reduce points of contamination.

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Avery Dennison Corporation’s Printer System Division to deploy one of its Tervia blood tracking systems across all eight of its sites by June.

Data acquisition and temperature management system manufacturer Anville Instruments says its new Series 825 thermal validation interface with EaziVal SE software is aimed at hospital estate managers, steriliser equipment manufacturers and pharmaceutical industry personnel.

Patient information and entertainment system specialist Airwave has supplied mental healthcare Trust Pennine Care NHS Trust with bespoke wall-mounted TV systems for five forensic units for the mentally ill (accommodating 75 beds in all) in the Greater Manchester area, each offering a variety of external and “internal” TV channels, and encompassed in a robust perspex “bubbled shroud” to guard against patient self-harm.

Eastwood Park, the privately-owned training centre for personnel in the healthcare engineering, estates and facilities management arena, offers a wide range of training courses – on subjects ranging from decontamination and infection control, use of medical gas equipment, fire safety and lift maintenance, to estates and facilities management.

Infection control and surgical innovation specialist Steris will be showing its new Harmony LED lighting and visualisation system, designed to provide excellent deep-cavity illumination and highly accurate rendition of skin and organ colouring to surgeons without generating significant heat in the operating theatre.

Parity Medical provides clinical information access solutions via mobile, desk and wall-mounted devices for use in theatres, on wards and A&E, in MDT and training rooms, for projects such as PACS, care records, pharmacy, digital signage, patient information/ entertainment and bed management.

With rising energy costs and the current focus on resource conservation, manufacturer and developer of industrial and commercial humidification systems Dri-Steem has developed a new humidification option – new, high efficiency dispersion tubes for its Ultra-sorb and Rapid-sorb steam dispersion systems, to be shown at Healthcare Ireland on the Intelligent Building Controls stand.

Trumpf Medical Systems supplies pendant solutions, operating tables and operating lights to operating theatres, ICU and HDU departments.

Specialist healthcare communication provider Static Systems Group will showcase its award-winning patient handsets, which can be seen for the first time in the Irish Republic following successful launches in both the UK and internationally.

Visitors to the DOP Solutions stand will be able to see its low particle shedding tools for use in cleanrooms and theatres. The company says such tools are now widely used in the pharmaceutical sector, where they are proving to be durable, easy-to-clean and reliable.

Drax (UK) will show for the first time its Connect AMX1 alarm management system. A “powerful, bespoke approach to systems integration”, the AMX1 can integrate existing standalone third party systems, including fire detection, security, lighting and plant, into one “easily manageable, convenient and simply controlled system” without compromising individual system integrity.

Being shown on the joint Trend Controls/ Intelligent Building Controls stand (the latter is Trend’s Irish agent), the new Trend Controls IQ3xcite building management system controller is said to represent “a massive leap forward in technology”.

Healthcare Ireland has been chosen by City & Kent Cleaning to launch its new, specialised hospital and healthcare deep cleaning service, Intensive Deep Clean Systems (iDCS).

Induchem Components, which partners HVAC hydronic performance specialist Flow Control Industries in Ireland, says Flow Control’s DeltaPValves use “fundamentally different technology” to that utilised in conventional hot and chilled water system design to provide a 25-35% reduction in system energy consumption.

Speciality chemical manufacturer Amity will show new variants of its Virusolve family of cleaning solutions, including Virusolve+ EDS, for rapid cleaning / disinfection of medical, surgical, dental and endoscopic instruments in one application.