RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Two new antibacterial decorative coatings specially formulated “to help cash-strapped health Trusts prevent the spread of superbugs in their facilities”, and simultaneously “deliver cost savings by significantly extending redecoration schedules” have been launched by Crown Trade.

The design, construction, installation, and validation of four “turnkey” CL3 laboratory suites at Malta’s Mater Dei Hospital in Msida has been undertaken by Oldham-based “clean air” system specialist Medical Air Technology (MAT).

Trend Control Systems’ new Ethernet Metering Interface Controller (EMIC) “cost-effectively” allows readings from multiple, multi-parameter electricity meters to be automatically channelled to a Trend building energy management system (BEMS), where they can be displayed, analysed, and then acted on, to effect energy savings.

The first product to be launched by Redhill-based Bytec Medical, the recentlyformed medical equipment manufacturer, and engineering and design arm of the Bytec group, is a keyboard extensively trialled prior to launch to ensure it met the stringent infection control demands of A&E departments, hospital wards, and other healthcare environments.

Sirrus by Gummers has launched a range of shower panels which it believes are the market’s slimmest TMV3-approved such units.

A new website from supplier of safes, key safes, padlocks and other security products Securikey (www.securikey.co.uk),

JG Speedfit has launched an underfloor heating website, www.speedfitufh.co.uk It contains detailed technical information and advice on a variety of practical areas, including how underfloor heating works, floor type choices, and fully interactive demonstrations of system controls, plus projects and case studies highlighting best practices.

Design and build contractor Composite is to build a new pre-cast concrete, multi-storey visitor car park at York Hospital, for the York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, working in partnership with main contractor, Kier Northern.

Developed to enable Drax (UK) fire detection and alarm equipment users to “monitor every stage of the maintenance process from any authorised location”, and to document every part of the maintenance cycle, IRIS (Internet Recording Information System) is a new web-based service management system.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital staff selected a new Modula S-TP water purification system from ELGA Process Water for the hospital’s new £2.7 million Children’s Kidney Unit (HEJ – May 2010).

A roof at Reading’s Royal Berkshire Hospital is finally free of scaffolding thanks to a 3M roofing solution. The flat roof covering the hospital’s radiology department had been leaking, but the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust had not had the budget to replace it.

Birmingham City Hospital has turned to specialist in commercial showering, washroom controls, fittings, and systems Rada to help target improved efficiencies in infection control after detecting higher than expected C. difficile rates in a former Nightingale ward for the elderly.

Since it was launched at the IHEEM exhibition last year, the Dyteqta-System - the world’s first dedicated non-invasive, non-destructive, fully automatic drainage monitoring system - has been generating considerable interest from across the healthcare sector. This has included infection control specialists, facility and building services managers, construction firms and drainage materials suppliers.

There has never been a previous time when those responsible for the maintenance of ventilation systems had more reason to ensure they are maintained in a clean and safe condition. The very air that patients, staff and visitors breathe must be safe and, since the essential function of air ventilation systems is to circulate clean, safe air, it is indisputable that they need to be kept clean.

Based in a large listed manor house, the rehabilitation centre combines an old building exterior with an interior containing the latest specialist facilities and systems including The Wandsworth Group’s IPiN Nursecall.

Achieving optimum hygiene levels in hospital environments has “just got much easier”, says Construction Specialities (C/S) . . .

Designer of operating room equipment Berchtold has received an order for 500 of its small D 300 therapy and examination lights for Algeria from Lytraco, a Lyon-based exporter, for mobile field hospital use.

AF Consulting, which advises NHS Trusts on operational PFI contracts, has launched a free helpline service to provide advice to public sector managers responsible for operational PFI contracts.

EnduraCor, the Leaderflush Shapland doorset core, is “one hundred times more durable than multi-layered chipboard”, according to a recent independent test.

Rehau has launched a new antimicrobial option for both its PROFILA data and COMPACT data cable management systems.