RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

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’.

Precision UK designs, manufactures, and supplies medical gas pipeline equipment, and claims to the only truly British company accredited to ISO 9001, ISO 13485, and Medical Devices Directive 93/42/EEC, offering ‘the complete range of medical gas pipeline equipment’, fully CE marked and UKmanufactured in its own factory.

BeaconMedæs says its TotalAlert Infinity Medical Gas Notification System – designed as a ‘truly global solution’ to handle any standard and language – is the first monitoring device to offer customised alerts and action plans, ‘taking the confusion out of emergency response’.

Medical Air Technology (MAT) has come to the end of a major project at Barnet Hospital, which has seen the complete refurbishment of its five main operating theatres, and the refurbishment and remodelling of a day surgery unit.

The positive effects of a comfortable and welcoming healthcare environment on patients’ wellbeing and recovery times have been known for some time.

Croft Medical Centre is a modern GP practice in Chelmsley Wood by Birmingham. It is proof that a little attention to lighting design can go a long way towards a professional and comfortable ambiance in a medical practice.

Teal Patents says that with the winter bringing news of hospital ward closures due to outbreaks of norovirus, it is time for a renewed focus on hand hygiene

Haigh is now using products from TECcare – a leading supplier of antimicrobial products – in a system proven in scientific testing to thoroughly disinfect its macerators, initially in its new generation Quattro.

Hospitals are seeing the benefits of using the SystemSURE Plus ATP system to monitor and verify cleaning – in areas ranging from Sterile Services departments to endoscopy units, theatres, wards, cleanrooms, and catering areas.

Undertaking ACoP L8 tests on hardto-reach temperature points can be costly and problematic for engineers equipped only with conventional temperature probes, leading a number of hospitals to switch to remote monitoring.