RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Rada, the ‘pioneer of digital washroom technology’, is supplying its Rada Sense clinical washroom controls to Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool.

By 2050, the average age of European citizens will increase from 39 to 49, water controls and sanitary equipment specialist, Delabie, points out. The company adds:

Tarn-Pure says its system ‘employs well-proven technology through a unique copper-silver ionisation process which releases validated, efficacious quantities of copper and silver ions into the water storage/distribution circuit, providing environmentally friendly, cost-effective protection against Legionella’.

Sensazone, from ‘water management experts’, Cistermiser, is a system designed ‘as a simple yet effective way of controlling the water supply and lowering energy usage, while maintaining safe, hygienic washroom environments’.

Pegler Yorkshire’s new Tectite thermostatic mixing valve series ‘combines the latest in metal push-fit technology, with the ultimate protection against hot water scalding and thermal shock’.

A new range of assisted wetrooms suitable for care settings has been launched by Gainsborough Specialist Bathing, complementing its selection of baths and recently launched shower modules.

The New South Glasgow Hospitals Project, currently under construction by Brookfield Multiplex for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, will give Glasgow one of the UK’s most advanced adult acute services, and will be Scotland’s biggest critical care complex – a 1,109 bed adult acute hospital adjoining a 256-bed children’s hospital.

Doncaster-based Intastop – a leading manufacturer of door and wall protection products – will showcase a wide range of anti-ligature solutions at the 'Design in Mental Health' exhibition, which is being held at the National Motorcycle Museum, near Solihull, from 12-14 May this year.

Bristan has continued its concerted focus on the commercial sector with the launch of what are claimed to be the market’s softest touch timed flow taps to date.

Feel Better Sooner (FBS) Furniture, which has manufactured and installed mental health furniture for high, medium, and low secure units UKwide for many years, invites show visitors to ‘come and look at and touch’ its products.

A special emphasis on anti-barricade systems, anti-ligature ironmongery, and vision panels, will be the focus on the Kingsway Group stand.

For 25 years P4 has designed and manufactured products that provide emergency lighting to mental health premises in the event of power failure.

Anti-Ligature Shop (ALS) dubs itself ‘a true supplier’ to the mental health and custodial sectors, ‘with a reputation for innovation and quality’, and claims to be ‘the only supplier of specialist anti-ligature products under all one roof’.

ATB Secure will show its ‘unique’ Horizontal Slider and an Automated Opening Window – part of its Taurus Max range – designed specifically to meet mental health sector specifiers’ needs.

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: