RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Bristan says it ‘continues to champion innovation in the healthcare market’, having last year launched various updates to its current product offering, including the updated H64 tap, Solo tap, and infrared range.

Pseudalert, ‘the 24-hour test for detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa’, has now been accepted by the UK Standing Committee of Analysts for the analysis of drinking water, and is specified as a recommended method in the Committee’s ‘Blue Book’ publication, The Microbiology of Drinking Water (MoDW) Part 8 – Methods for the isolation and enumeration of Aeromonas and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Clarke Energy says it is proud to have reached 67 MW of installed CHP capacity within the NHS.

Capstone Turbine Corporation’s 1 MW Capstone C1000S microturbine is part of the company’s new Signature series of microturbine energy systems; it is also available in 600 kW and 800 kW versions.

Even with the Government cash injection announced in the spring Budget, pressure is mounting within the healthcare sector to make cost savings across the board.

CHP is often used in district heating networks, for which the Government has announced support via a £320 m investment in the next five years.

The Royal Stoke University Hospital, part of University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, has installed a high efficiency ENER-G CHP system to improve its environmental performance and reduce energy costs.

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust chose last month’s NHS Sustainability Day 2017 to open its new low-carbon energy centre at Scarborough Hospital.

Medical Air Technology (MAT) has completed work on a major seven-theatre upgrade project at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, the largest single site hospital in the country and one of the highest performing NHS organisations.

Wardray Premise has been the agent for speciality glass from Corning – a ‘world leader’ in radiation shielding glass – for many years, meaning that Wardray glass products provided for facilities such as hospital X-ray rooms ‘are high quality, meet European standards, and have excellent physical properties, such as good visual clarity’.

Mitie says its recent success at the National Apprenticeship Awards 2016, where the strategic outsourcing and FM company was announced ‘Macro Employer of the Year’, would not have been possible without the help of its training partner, Jigsaw Training.

PPL Training, ‘a leading, national training course provider’, has delivered training to the healthcare estates sector since 2011, with its courses ‘designed to assist in meeting the key competency requirements of the Health Technical Memoranda’.

BOC Healthcare is a BTEC-accredited training centre, delivering a range of courses that enable healthcare staff to comply with current codes of practice and legislative requirements.

Develop Training warns that, all too frequently, incidents within confined spaces result in fatalities.

Recognising the need for more intensive training this year, Eastwood Park has introduced several new courses on its recently published 2017-18 training calendar.

MGPS Services says it is ‘well-known in the NHS and overseas’ for its independent approach to delivering high quality courses in medical gas system management and operation in a healthcare environment; its courses are ‘designed to encourage a safety culture, with patient safety at its heart’

mmerse Training has responded to the release of the latest review of HTM 04-01: Safe water in healthcare premises, with a new one-day City & Guilds-accredited training course to address the DH requirement for all individuals working with healthcare water systems to undergo water hygiene training.

We breathe dirty air in – and out – all the time. Pollution and contamination can come from a variety of sources, including ourselves: the outer layer of human skin can host up to 1 million microorganisms per square cm and human saliva up to 1 billion per mL.

Refresher training is exactly that – designed to support all those working on ‘live’ medical gas pipeline systems in staying up to date with the latest best practice, says Eastwood Park, which delivers refreshers for Competent and Authorised Persons in line with HTM 02-01 guidance.

Pneumatech Medical Gas Solutions (PMGS) says its new Automatic Changeover Medical Manifold – the PureGAS – incorporates a ‘state-of-theart’ control system, and offers reduced installation costs, and ‘outstanding performance, superior quality, and lower total ownership costs’.