RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

From inception to the present day, MGPS Services says it has remained true to its prime objective – independence from suppliers, installers, and maintainers.

With the purity of medical gases critical, but with the potential for contamination and foreign gases to permeate in and out of equipment via valves, connectors, pipes, and tubing, Versaperm offers accurate permeation testing thanks to the ‘latest-generation sensors’ now installed on its ‘already proven’ medical permeability measurement equipment.

Beacon Medæs has launched ‘the next generation’ of medical gas terminal units.

Medical Gas Testing Services (MGTS) offers independent medical gas testing using the ‘team approach’ advocated in HTM 02 with installers, Competent Persons (MGPS), engineers, Authorised Persons (MGPS), and other colleagues.

When equipping the new Nelson Health Centre in Merton, South West London, the brief for electronic locking system specialist, Salto, was to manage the design and installation of ‘a secure, flexible, and cost-effective access control solution that was simple to use to meet both NHS and end users’ needs’.

Managing any healthcare facility is a juggling act, and where service-users are vulnerable, well-designed fixtures ‘can make a huge difference’ to their safety and dignity.

Securikey has launched two new models as part of its Keylex digital door lock range – the Keylex 700AR Series for commercial applications, and the Keylex 700M Series for domestic use.

Stanley Security’s AeroScout asset visibility system provides real-time location solutions (RTLS), status, and alerts, delivered via a healthcare facility’s Wi-Fi infrastructure, ‘to improve quality of care and patient and staff safety’.

Selecting an appropriate staff alarm system is a key factor in protecting employees’ security – a task personal alarm and critical communications specialist, Atus Systems, says it has ‘a proven track record’ of achieving.

A ‘360 degree’ video imaging solution designed for building and facilities management personnel, with the ability to integrate floor plans, architectural drawings, and other documents, has been launched by Arithmetica, an ‘innovator in 360 degree imaging solutions and automated laser scanning data processing software’, based at the famous Shepperton Studios near London.

Green Gate Access Systems, which provides solar and mains-powered gates, barriers, and access control systems, throughout the UK, has opened an additional office in Salisbury.

A range of electric locking solutions featuring new ‘low energy’ technology, ‘blending high security with eco-friendliness in the same lock’, has been introduced by Abloy.

A door top alarm system, described as ‘pivotal to personal safety strategies in mental healthcare establishments’, has been commended by a hospital Trust for its simplicity and effectiveness.

On 11 May the first patient was treated within a mobile operating theatre at the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, supplied by Vanguard Healthcare, ‘to assist the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in increasing patient access and reducing the risk of cancelling operations’.

With operating theatres incorporating a host of expensive equipment that could be damaged or destroyed in the event of fire, an integral part of the fire protection system is the network of fire dampers – designed to close when the temperature within the ductwork reaches a certain level.

Daray Medical has recently supplied multiple LED operating theatre lights for use in a new dermatology unit at Solihull Hospital.

Astralite plus, Brandon Medical’s latest minor surgical/examination light, is an extension to its Astralite HD-LED range.

Since the launch of its Exflow Evolution ultraclean canopy in 2012, clean air engineering specialist, Howorth Air Technology, says it has found the system to be ‘the preferred choice’ of both NHS and private hospitals in the UK and globally.

Maquet and GE Healthcare are jointly developing a new flexible angiography hybrid operating theatre solution.

Trumpf Medical describes its new operating table, the TruSystem 7000, as its most advanced operating table ever.