RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

A new, ‘improved’ Q-Flow surgical light – available in the UK from Bender UK – has been revealed by Merivaara of Finland.

Medical Air Technology (MAT) has designed a scheme for the major refurbishment of an existing laboratory at University Hospital Crosshouse – a large district general hospital near Kilmarnock in south-west Scotland.

Bender has launched a new, ‘premium’ PACS Console for use in operating theatres and critical care areas, which it says ‘employs proven display technology to deliver superior quality images to clinicians viewing scans, images, and hospital records’.

Apollo Fire Detectors, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of fire detection and alarm devices, has launched its range of flush mounted, EN54-7 approved fire detectors to the international market.

Marshall-Tufflex’s PowerPoles and Odyssey Bio trunking have been used in the fitting out of the COVID-19 Lighthouse Laboratory in Plymouth, which, when fully operational, will have the capacity to process up to 40,000 COVID-19 tests per day.

Metalline claims to be the first the first UK cladding manufacturer to ‘uniquely offer’ both non-combustible aluminium rainscreen and non-combustible aluminium insulated Spandrel panels, all fully tested and certified to Class A1 rating.

Furniture manufacturer, Knightsbridge, has partnered with designer, Bruce Kenneth (pictured right, with Knightsbridge’s director of Design & Development, Jason Brown), to develop ‘a unique collection of furniture for the healthcare sector'.

Contract interior specialist, Gradus, has designed and installed bespoke wall protection with a printed finish at the new £350 m Grange University Hospital in Llanfrechfa, Cwmbran, in Wales.

Steve Sweryda (pictured centre) of Interfurn Medical Systems Ltd stepped down from his role as managing director at the end of December 2020, handing over the reins to the company's operations director, Jon Fletcher (pictured far left).

Medical Air Technology (MAT) says it is proud to have been part of the team that delivered the new £25 m treatment centre for Queen's Hospital Burton, installing two ultraclean operating theatres as part of the centre’s facilities for orthopaedic sur

P-Wave, a specialist supplier of washroom air fresheners and antibacterial products, says its Steri-Core antimicrobial silver ion technology door furniture helps reduce the spread of bacteria and viruses.

LTE Scientific, a leading manufacturer and supplier of laboratory and medical equipment, has introduced a range of low temperature sterilisation products to aid the reprocessing of heat-sensitive medical devices and surgical instruments.

Honeywell has expanded its Healthy Buildings Air Quality offering to help improve and measure indoor air quality with the new Honeywell Electronic Air Cleaners (EACs) with UV Systems (pictured), and a new range of indoor air quality (IAQ) sensors.

The latest version of Remsdaq’s EntroWatch access control software for Entro series door controllers, contactless card readers, and keypads includes several new features which the company claims ‘help make buildings COVID-19 secure’.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust has recently invested in the MyPorter portering management system to help improve service resilience and patient flow as it heads into ‘the double challenge’ of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and usual winter pressures.

Recently incorporated UK-based company, KSG Health, has begun importing, and can now UK customers, a range of air purification devices from Finnish company, Genano.

Infection control specialist, DDC Dolphin, has supplied the NHS Nightingale Hospital North West with several of its Pulpmatic Ultima medical macerators for the safe disposal of pulp bedpans and human waste.

With a large quantity of consumables required to cater for the influx of patients into the ICUs at London hospitals during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, , Medstor was brought in at very short notice to help the Royal London Hospital.

Clinical and non-clinical areas at across Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport have been were ‘transformed’ in a single day thanks to the quick-drying properties of the Dulux Trade Sterishield range.

With, it claims, ‘the majority’ of the UK’s acute hospitals, and many overseas, having already invested in a Static Systems Group (SSG) nurse call system, the company has developed two attack alarm solutions which use the same technology platform.