RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Solk, a family-run contract furniture business established for over 60 years, with its own three-acre site in Leeds, specialises in supplying furniture into ‘challenging’, and mental healthcare facilities, and is a preferred supplier to the NHS, local authorities, and large organisations.

Thorlux Lighting, a British-owned company that has manufactured luminaires in the West Midlands for 77 years, says while the key ‘historical’ requirement for mental healthcare lighting has been to provide vandalresistant, anti-ligature luminaires.

Recognised as ‘a leading provider of staff safety and protection systems’, Guardian Staff Safety Systems says it has become ‘the preferred choice of several Government departments’.

Launched at last year’s show by Safehinge, which is again exhibiting, was a ‘revolutionary, safe door system’, Symphony, said to ‘resolve the conflict between Building Regulations requirements for a fire door to be selfclosing, and NHS Trusts’ need to eliminate ligature points by using a transom door closer fitted in the frame head’.

Britplas, well known for its Safevent anti-ligature window, and a major contributor to the Design in Mental Health Network, will showcase its new Safesee door. The company said:

Introducing art into healthcare can help create therapeutic environments and promote wellbeing, says Bristol-based independent arts consultancy, Willis Newson, which adds:

A wide range of anti-ligature solutions will be shown by door and wall protection product manufacturer, Intastop.

A furniture collection designed and developed specifically for ‘demanding environments across the mental health sector’ will be shown by Knightsbridge Furniture.

High performance flooring from Flowcrete UK – installed at a new Bristol hospital facility by Polydeck Resins – has secured a top industry award.

Polyflor’s leading smooth vinyl range, Pearlazzo PUR, has been installed in the new Cyberknife Radiosurgery facility at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, one of only six such facilities in the UK.

Danfloor has supplied 3,000 m2 of its Equinox Tones carpet range for use in locations ranging from corridors to bedrooms, to Hallmark Care Homes’ Alexandra Grange 55-bed care home in Wokingham.

Following trials of a ‘shock-absorbent’ Tarkett flooring system commonly used in sports halls, Portsmouth’s Queen Alexandra Hospital is hoping to reduce trips and falls in its dementia wards by installing the material.

Described as ‘one of the UK’s most flexible single-sided entrance mats’, Nuway Connect is part of Forbo Flooring Systems’ comprehensive entrance systems flooring portfolio, and ‘gives peace of mind in stopping a high proportion of dirt and moisture from entering a building’.

Altro has launched a new ‘package’ of flooring and wall cladding products, ‘designed to offer a holistic approach to interior design’.

A new online training resource, ‘The Sentinel Academy’, launched by ‘experts in energy efficiency’, Sentinel, ‘makes instantly available some of the 25 years of expertise the Sentinel team has accumulated, highlighting the benefits of best practice water treatment for central heating systems’.

Essential knowledge about the microbiology and health effects of two significant waterborne bacteria, Legionella pneumophila and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and how healthcare estates, infection control, and other responsible personnel can successfully control the risks within water systems.

As the operator of ‘the world’s largest fleet of temporary surgical facilities’, Vanguard Healthcare says its 41-strong fleet of lorry-borne surgical units has constantly to ‘connect’ to different water sources in different locations.

Armitage Shanks has introduced a new demountable hospital mixer with a detachable spout to its Markwik range.

Specialist in delayed action float valves, Keraflo, has worked with Kier Construction to develop a system that ensures simultaneous filling of both sides of break and storage tanks, ensuring a constant supply of fresh water.

Raychem says that although recirculating water systems used to combat Legionella ‘provide an acceptable solution’ to hot water temperature maintenance, single pipe DHW systems are ‘the intelligent and safe way to supply instant hot water at the tap’.