RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Anglia Crown, Bakkavör’s hospital meals division, has unveiled a new “seasonally adjusted” “Crown Dining” à-la-carte meal range offering an extensive menu choice of chilled and frozen products, including multi-portion entrées, vegetables, potatoes, and puddings.

Guides to ceiling and wall systems “for the particularly demanding environments of healthcare buildings” have been launched in three formats by Armstrong Ceilings.

A new range of energy-efficient, ultra high contrast LED monitors, designed for demanding CCTV applications, and said to provide higher picture quality and enhanced specifications while delivering a 40% reduction in lifetime ownership costs, has been launched by Vigilant Vision.

Now available from UK distributor of Wetrok healthcare cleaning products, Jigsaw, is a plant oil-based cleaning liquid said not only to be “healthy for the skin”, but also “highly effective in all cleaning situations across floors and other surfaces”.

A quick-to-install, compact device that provides an isolated electrical supply without the need for a centrally controlled IPS system, and reportedly offers cost savings of approximately 75% compared with existing, bulkier units, is now available from Starkstrom.

Qube Global Software showcased its “Planet” facilities management software, which it says has been implemented in over 300 organisations across industry, commerce, the NHS, and the public sector, at the annual HefmA Conference.

Static Systems says the “hot topic of conversation” at HefmA was its Fusion-IP nurse call system, which enjoyed a successful launch at Arab Health earlier this year.

One of the UK’s leading manufacturers of nurse call systems, the Wandsworth Group, has been at the forefront of healthcare communications technology for over 50 years.

Experts in single use pulp bedpan disposal, Haigh, demonstrated the SOLO and award-winning Panaway models from its Sluicemaster range at the recent Hefma show in Torquay.

Already providing energy services to 85 UK hospitals, Dalkia claims to be the market leader for energy efficiency projects that provide savings on operational costs and reductions in CO2.

With the current financial challenges facing the NHS, supplier of wireless nurse call and warden systems, Aid Call, says 'there has never been a greater need to offer simpler, more cost-effective, and more innovative solutions to ensure the maximum potential is squeezed out of every penny', and to focus on delivering 'better value-for-money'.

BeaconMedaes and Addmaster have combined their expertise to launch 'the next generation' Gem 10 medical gas terminal unit, said to be the UK’s first medical gas terminal unit to offer inherent antimicrobial protection as standard.

Clivet has developed a high efficiency packaged unit, the Zephir2, which provides filtered fresh air while simultaneously extracting energy from the exhaust air. The system ensures that full air renewal and purification are achieved at maximum efficiency.

The latest addition to Bytec Medical’s range of medical carts and display mounting solutions is the new portable DeskStand. With “easy-clean features” for robust infection control, the “robust” desk stand has a standard VESA 75 or 100 mounting adapter, enabling it to hold a variety of display and monitoring equipment, touchscreen PCs, and point-of-care terminals.

Automation and display technology specialist Jayex’s new Web Media M4 multimedia and client call solution incorporates digital displays that will allow healthcare organisations to communicate visually and audibly to staff, visitors, and patients, in prime locations such as receptions, walkways, and waiting areas.

IDC’s new ZB111 wireless-based barcode scanner is designed to provide low-cost inventory management systems (IMS) in healthcare facilities.

Last month’s Ecobuild exhibition saw LG Air Conditioning & Energy Solutions show, for the first time in Europe, its new Multi V III commercial air conditioner for large facilities.

Vernacare’s Tuffie 5 multi-surface sporicidal wipe is now also available in new, lighter flexible packaging designed to reduce packaging waste by 70%, while providing further customer cost savings of up to 30% versus traditional tubs.

Measuring power consumption in a wide variety of locations is now said to be easier and quicker with the launch of k-Wattch, a portable hand-held energy monitor developed as part of the Sinergy range by Marshall-Tufflex Energy Management (MTEM).

Willbeck’s Titan bariatric chair is tested by FIRA to 50 stone (318 kg) capacity, is said to be quick and easy to clean, has fixed or drop arm options, comes with a choice of seat heights, incorporates three coats of antimicrobial wood polish, and is supplied with housekeeping wheels as standard.