RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

‘Integrated healthcare provider’, Core IHS, works with theatre staff to ensure that theatre equipment is properly maintained, ‘and ease the pressure on facilities by preparing them for CQC inspections and ensuring compliance with NatSSIP and LocSSIP Standards for Invasive Procedures’.

The Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre in Plymouth, which provides NHS patients with fast access to elective and diagnostic procedures, has recently invested over £2 m in a third operating theatre and a new endoscopy suite,

The requirement to eliminate the spread of bacteria through healthcare environments can, Conti + UK maintains, ‘be significantly aided with the introduction of touch-free products’, but, it adds, “the benefits of ‘intelligent’ taps only just begin with hygiene and convenience”.

To complement its wide selection of grab bars, shower seats, and accessories, Delabie has added a new, ergonomic, stylish, and easy-to-install tilting mirror to its offering of products designed for people with reduced mobility.

Challis Water Controls says that following its introduction of a quarterly disposable shower replacement scheme, NHS Trusts across the UK are now realising that ‘it is cheaper, safer, and best practice, to regularly replace shower and hoses rather than attempt to clean old showers each quarter’.

Haigh has collaborated with ‘antimicrobial technology experts’, TECcare, to develop what it says is ‘a unique macerator disinfection system’.

Andrews Water Heaters has launched a ‘new and improved’ version of its original sizing tool for water heater specification, Size-it.

Seeking to ‘revolutionise’ the way estates teams countrywide deal with the ACoP L8’s requirement for quarterly de-scaling and deep cleaning of showerheads and hoses, Dupal UK says its L8 Shower system ‘truly is a simple solution’.

The Water Hygiene Centre has announced that Phil Lonsdale has joined as senior consultant/Authorising Engineer (Water).

TME Thermometers has developed a dedicated Legionella temperature range of products to speed up and simplify compliance with ACoP L8 water testing.

‘Continuing nationwide growth’ has seen provider of air and water hygiene services, Guardian Water Treatment, open a new office in Leeds, expanding from its Essex base to better serve its northern operations.

ADSM says its ‘unique governmentapproved grant programme’, Aquafund, offers organisations seeking to reduce water consumption and cost at no capital cost access to grant funding via a direct access NHS framework, ‘with typical savings of between 15 and 30%’.

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.