RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Aid Call, which claims to have ‘led the way’ in the manufacture of wireless nurse call technology for the past 35 years, offers ‘a wide range of products and bespoke solutions to meet the specific demands and requirements of the hospital environment’.

Achieving ‘good visibility’ of physical ‘assets’ across a sizeable healthcare estate can often be challenging, but is imperative to balance availability and efficiency.

As the primary means of communication between hospital staff and patients, nurse call systems are central to the functioning of all healthcare facilities.

With nurse call now part of the IP infrastructure, manufacturer, Austco, says that, ‘as the final leg’ to the hospital bedside or nursing staff, ‘future-proofed’ nurse call systems like its Tacera Pulse can be ‘the catalyst to improving patient flow’

Wandsworth Healthcare partnered with the Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust in ‘an innovative installation’ of IPiN, a fully IP nurse call system complete ‘with mobile integrations’.

A new communications system in the Jubilee Building at Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital – which houses southwest England’s first all-single bedded hospital accommodation – has won praise from user, the Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

Stanley Guard is a new personal security ‘app’ from Stanley Security designed to help protect staff or other individuals who may be at risk and do not carry an on-site alarm mobile device.

C-TEC’s Quantec addressable call system has been installed at Abbey Court Independent Hospital, a purpose-built facility in Warrington for people with dementia and other mental health needs.

Wireless nurse call specialist, CourtneyThorne, has installed its 08 system at Medway Maritime Hospital’s 20-room pre-occupation care unit (POCU) in Gillingham, Kent, bringing to 10 the number of wards utilising the system at the hospital (pictured).

The Medicare HTM series nurse call system has, Medicare Systems explains, been designed to be very easy to use, and to ‘withstand the rigours of the care home and hospital market’.

UK staff security specialist, Atus Systems, is set to add to its portfolio late this year with the launch of the Smart Badge, which it says ‘serves as an effective and indispensable extension of the smartphone’.

Now available from Hampshire-based designer and manufacturer of ‘smart LED lighting solutions’, PhotonStar LED Group, is HalcyonPRO, ‘an intelligent, wireless, automated energy-saving and circadian lighting solution’.

Dräger Medical says its Polaris 100/200 surgical light heads offer ‘everything users need for reliable operating room illumination’, being ‘equally suited to minor procedure and dedicated endoscopy room applications’.

As part of its carbon reduction programme – and in a separate project to that reported on on page 58 – Spire Healthcare has recently evaluated the benefits of LED lighting in a pilot project at its Leicester Hospital, which demonstrated energy savings of around 69%.

P4 has worked with the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust since 2008 ‘to reduce risk and whole-life cost, ensure emergency lighting complies with BS 5266, and enable delivery of improved care outcomes’.

Energy performance ‘solutions provider’, Future Energy Solutions (FES), has completed, on time and on budget, a major two-phase LED lighting installation for Spire Healthcare, which has seen new LED luminaires installed at 38 of the private healthcare provider’s sites.

Astralite plus is a recently introduced minor surgical and examination light from Brandon Medical which the company says provides ‘higher intensity bright light’, has a light head positionable ‘all the way around the couch’, and offers an LED life of 50,000 hours, ‘equating to over 20 years’ normal use’.

‘Human-centric’ LED lighting from Trilux features in a new geriatric ward at the Krankenhaus Maria-Hilf in Brilon, Germany.

With fluctuating light conditions in the operating theatre ‘potentially a serious impediment to the surgeon’, Trumpf Medical’s iLED 7 – claimed to be ‘the world’s first OR surgical light with builtin intelligence’ – features a 3D sensor system that ‘continuously analyses its environment’.

BOC has launched a new Backfeed Kit for supplying medical oxygen to healthcare facilities while the main pipework infrastructure is being isolated.