RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

According to Hochiki Europe, 2013 is set to be’ a year of significant change’ for fire detection manufacturers, in the way their products and systems are designed, produced, and used – thanks to the introduction of EN 54-23:2010, a pan-European standard focusing on visual alarm devices (VADs).

Workflow Dynamics, a division of The Parking Shop, provides back office services for companies wanting to manage their own permits and parking enforcement ‘on the ground’, but ‘without the cost and aggravation of managing the process’.

Over the past 12 months the Healthcare Facilities Consortium (HFC) says it has undergone the biggest restructure in its 17-year history, and will introduce several products over the next few months, all supported by a new image, new website, and new ways for stakeholders to communicate with, and receive updates from it.

Designer and manufacturer of clinical waste bins, Wybone, will show a selection of products, including its ‘revolutionary’ Capsule hospital waste bin.

An array of products for emergency solutions, including evacuation chairs designed to enable the mobility-impaired to descend staircases easily during an emergency, will be shown by emergency escape equipment specialist, Evac+Chair International.

Dalkia, which claims to save 7.5 million tonnes of CO2 for customers annually, will show ‘the latest solutions for reducing carbon emissions from hospitals’.

Norland, a hard services-led facilities maintenance and support services specialist for the built environment, says that, having identified healthcare as ‘a key vertical market with real growth opportunities’, it is working in partnership with some of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts and acute hospitals across the UK.

Specialist in managerial and executive recruitment, Finegreen Associates, says the estates and facilities sector was one of the first specialisms for the firm on its 2005 launch.

Airwave Healthcare will launch the latest in Philips White Healthcare televisions. Available in 22 and 26 in sizes, these sets reportedly ‘bring the best in patient viewing experience in a thin, energy-efficient LED TV’, offering ‘brilliant LED images with incredible contrast’.

BOC stresses to healthcare estates and facilities managers at hospitals with a medical gas pipeline system (MGPS) that they will need an Authorising Engineer service to meet HTM 01-02 standards – which stipulate a continuous cycle of assessment, audit, training, and review.

Asckey Data Services says its fmfirst, single source NHS site management tool offers ‘innovative computeraided facilities management (CAFM) software’, with functionality developed from the active input of NHS facilities managers.

Vanguard Healthcare – which claims to be the world’s leading supplier of selfstyled ‘pop-up hospitals’ – will showcase its interim clinical solutions.

Specialist in such technology, Aid Call, says wireless nurse call systems ‘provide all the functionality and reliability of a hard-wired system, but with greater flexibility, more powerful features, and greater functionality’.

ISS Facility Services says that, while traditionally, services such as catering and cleaning have been ‘the mainstay of contracted out NHS business’, there are many other services where private sector providers have been able to assist.

On Stand 63 delegates will be able to view examples of Topscan’s AutoCAD, surveying, data collection, compliance, and document digitising services, supplied to estates and facilities departments throughout the UK.

With hospital parking a complex, and sometimes contentious, issue, ParkingEye says it is ‘committed to providing the best possible, and most efficient, solution to enhance the patient/visitor experience’.

Visitors to the HefmA 2013 event will be able to meet head office personnel from the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM), on a dedicated IHEEM stand.

Static Systems Group will ‘showcase the flexibility’ of its Fusion-IP healthcare communication system and Modus headwall solutions.

Manufacturer and supplier of medical gas equipment, MEC Medical, has introduced a new refurbishment service for hoses and connectors.

Wandsworth Group demonstrated the latest developments to its Ethernet-based IPiN nurse call system at this year's Hefma annual event.