RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

LTE can now offer a special secure drying and storage cabinet designed specifically for use with flexible endoscopes.

Designer of secondary glazing systems Selectaglaze has completed a project to provide window protection at Smyth House, part of the St Andrew’s Healthcare residential secure mental health unit in Northampton.

A hard-coated polyester film specially designed to offer anti-microbial protection for hospital surfaces which also offers “industrial strength protection” against solvents and cleaning chemicals and impact and abrasion resistance “above ordinary laminates” is now available from MacDermid Autotype.

NEC Computers now offers a free IT hardware recycling service via which healthcare facilities can have any redundant IT hardware, regardless of brand, and including CRT monitors and other equipment containing hazardous substances, removed from their site free-of-charge.

SFX Parking Post is a new aid from SFX Technologies based on hi-tech flat panel loudspeaker technology designed to help protect parking spaces reserved for disabled drivers, parent or child or other special need groups.

Papworth Hospital is protecting staff from exposure to X-rays using “intelligently-shaped”, lead-free, lightweight shields provided by medical equipment supplier APC Cardiovascular.

South coast commercial engineering company BF Engineering Services says it is set to help hospitals across the country combat cross-contamination by being the UK’s first supplier of machines that effectively clean meal delivery carts.

Miele is offering new washerdisinfectors – the single-cabinet PG 8527 is designed to simplify and speed up the task of reprocessing laboratory glassware, and the PG 8528 is a twodoor barrier wall unit for surgical instruments.

Urmet Domus has introduced a solution for when audio communication is required as part of a door entry system but where it is not possible to install cables.

Dunphy’s new in-house designed touchscreen for its Ratiotronic 6000 digital burner/boiler management system offers “all the functionality of a standard PC, including IP-addressable web access”, giving healthcare engineers the facility for multiple set points.

A British-invented biotechnology device which can reportedly kill MRSA and other bacteria and viruses (including HN51 and C. difficile) on surfaces within an hour by purifying the air “within any enclosed living area”, has received independent test laboratory backing and is now ready for full-scale production.

Healthcare facilities can now calculate instantly the savings in both cost and carbon emissions which could be made by installing Elkay energy management products with the company’s launch of the “carboncalc” hand-held tool.

The latest addition to Rigel’s advanced electrometrical test instrumentation range is a special equipment package for EBME testing in accordance with the new IEC 62353 standard for medical devices.

West London’s Charing Cross Hospital, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, has ordered the NHS’s first Magnetom Verio 3T MRI scanner from Siemens Healthcare.

Priorclave says its new Opal range of laboratory autoclaves should “provide a low-cost alternative to the increasingly sophisticated and complex equipment generally available”.

Howorth Medical, a division of Howorth Airtech, is to equip a new £45 m cardiac and elective surgery facility at Castle Hill Hospital, part of the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, with four Exflow 32 Ultra Clean ventilation canopies and accompanying Howorth eXtension pendants.

A trial of Talley’s Sylvan wipe clean duvets and pillows by Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust at Worthing Hospital has seen nurse bedmaking time cut by around 35% and identified a potential £108,000 annual saving in Trust laundry costs, while patients say the new bedding is more comfortable, less restrictive and lighter than “traditional” linen.

Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton, Somerset’s largest general hospital, has taken delivery of 45 Nilfisk HDS 2000 vacuum cleaners, each fitted with a triple HEPA filtration system to reduce dust dispersal and ensure a clean, healthy environment.

Limerick’s Mid-Western Regional Hospital has turned to a chilled ceiling solution from SAS International to help combat heat generated from special equipment used in its intensive care neo-natal department.

Haigh’s new Classic + Sluicemaster bedpan disposer is an enhanced, more compact version of a unit the company says has been its “workhorse” machine for years.