RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Green & Kassab, which will launch two new services at HefmA 2012, says its speciality is working alongside NHS Trusts and their facilities management teams ‘to review, re-design, and implement change management strategies which deliver real service improvements and tangible financial savings’.

Catalyst Waste Solutions says its team of experienced ‘ex-NHS waste managers’ can help organisations ‘keen to reduce their waste, but not sure where to start’, by producing practical action plans and implementing change, as well as providing training, auditing, and procurement services.

Offering ‘a complete turnkey package, from design to installation’, Wandsworth Group claims to have been ‘at the forefront of communications technology within the healthcare sector for over 50 years’; its equipment has been installed in over 300 hospitals across the UK.

Haigh would like to thank all those who visited its stand at HefmA 2012, where the company exhibited the SOLO, and award-winning Panaway, pulp bedpan disposal systems from its Sluicemaster range.

Courtney-Thorne says the versatility of its CT-TOUCH nurse call touchscreen, running ’Call Manager 4.0’ software, is making it ‘a must-have’ throughout the healthcare sector, due to its instant user information and call tracking capabilities – all in one compact unit.

Patients within multi-bedded parts of the recently completed modular ward extension at Harefield Hospital can now enjoy their own personal television and radio thanks to Airwave Healthcare’s installation at the facility of one of its IPTV patient entertainment systems.

Visitors to the Health Estate Journal (note new telephone number: 01892 779999) and Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) stand will be able to learn more about how to register for a digitised copy of the magazine each month – a recent innovation, which also offers online advertisers the opportunity to direct site visitors back to their own website.

Training establishment, Eastwood Park, says that a ‘unique’ new course called Essentials for Estates will ‘deliver just that’ – an opportunity for estates and facilities managers, and those aspiring to the role, to ‘improve their existing core skills, as well as gain new tools and guidance to enable them to operate more effectively in today’s challenging and changing healthcare environment’.

With healthcare estate budgets’ being squeezed ever tighter’, there is ‘no margin for error’ when it comes to making purchasing decisions, according to specialist in fire detection and alarm systems, Hochiki Europe.

An ongoing upgrade of security at the CHU Annonay Hospital in France’s Rhône- Alpes region has seen the hospital install Ingersoll Rand’s PegaSys electronic access control system to cover 64 doors, three buildings, and four car parks.

ADT Fire & Security says its latest fire detection solution innovation, Generation 6 Detection Technology, offers ‘unique functionality and additional benefits’ to provide speedier installation, more efficient programming, and ‘a superb detector lifespan between service changes’.

Charter Specialist Security’s Charter- Integr8 security shutters are protecting North Lincolnshire’s newest health and social care facility – the Ironstone Centre in Scunthorpe.

Impey Showers has unveiled its latest showering technology for those with mobility issues. Its Impey Freedom air-assisted doors incorporate a ‘unique’ air-assisted spring mechanism that lifts the doors clear off the ground at the press of a lever.

S-equiP is the new name for Starkstrom’s fully integrated operating theatre equipment ‘solution’. The company says that, as sole supplier, it can ‘guarantee full and faultless communication between all the products which form the ‘solution’.

BeaconMedæs has launched ‘the second generation’ (Mk 2 variants) of its Medipoint medical gas alarms. The Medipoint 26 is specifically designed to monitor departmental gas pressure of up to six gases under ‘normal’, ‘high pressure’, and ‘low pressure’, conditions.

The ‘popular’ range of Universal electric strikes from ASSA, part of ASSA ABLOY Security Solutions, is now fully compatible with its most popular lockcase.

Fitzpatrick says that, ‘for buildings that demand the highest security and protection’, architects and specifiers should ‘look no further’ than its ‘Yobstopper’ doorset, which, with steel bindings, steel hinges, and angle gap guards, is ‘a door not to contend with’.

Trend Control Systems has launched the first two models in ‘a new generation’ of building energy management system (BEMS) controllers. Although small, the Trend IQ411 (pictured) and IQ412 reportedly offer ‘advanced capabilities not found on any other building services controller, even much larger ones’.

Sealwise WCB is a new type of ‘incredibly tough, waterprooffor- life’ board, which ‘looks like top-of-the range melaminefaced plywood or faced MDF, but which is actually made of PVC’, and can be supplied with fully integrated antibacterial properties.

Designer, developer, and manufacturer of thermostatic mixing and temperature control valves, Horne Engineering, says that waterborne bacteria are ‘ubiquitous’, and argues that it is thus ‘arguably impossible’ to completely eradicate them from hospital water supplies.