RECENT PRODUCT NEWS
Keeping data up-to-date
Specialist in surveying, data collection, and CAD services, Topscan says that, in the past year, many NHS Trusts have invested heavily in the creation of accurate CAD drawings for their building portfolio, helping them improve efficiency in the way their buildings are maintained, reduce costs, and increase the accuracy of information such as ERIC returns, and occupancy data.
Royal protection for infirmary
Gradus has supplied and fitted a comprehensive wall protection system throughout the New Victoria Wing at the multi-million pound Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Prefabricated washroom systems
Plumb Center now exclusively offers Saracen Washroom Solutions, a range of standard and bespoke cubicles, ducting, and vanity units, designed for wide-ranging applications.
Seamless refurbishment completed
Offering “a unique service” to diagnostic imaging departments – from design, build, and refurbishment, of clinical rooms, to provision of an interim mobile equipment solution –
Infection control the key
ProSurgical Healthcare’s new TACTYS Infection Control flat, glass-tempered, touchscreen, IP65 waterproof, “QWERTY” medical keyboards and TACTYS VOYAGER Mobile IT Cart have been designed in collaboration with the Coordination Centre for the Control of Nosocomial Infections for use in hospitals, dental practices, laboratories, and cleanrooms.
Complication-free access control
Leaderflush Shapland has added the Abloy UK Smartair access control system to its architectural ironmongery range, in the process “providing the protection of technologically sophisticated access control without the need for a complex online system”.
Modular system wins convert
A modular electrical distribution system from Modular Wiring Systems at Edinburgh’s new Spire Shawfair Park Hospital has speeded completion and won a new convert in the form of senior contracts manager at NG Bailey Stuart McMenigall.
Service connection co-ordinated
Service connections specialist Crown Energy claims that “the biggest headache in any property development project is coordinating multiple utility service providers”.
Help to manage refrigerant phase-out
A-Gas (UK) has “gone live” with a dedicated website to help businesses gain further insight and help with the virgin HCFC use ban. The re-packager of refrigerant and other gases says that, “despite all the publicity and warnings”, there are still end-users unaware that they may be storing illegal refrigerants.
Rada package for Newcastle PFI scheme
A £270 million rationalisation of healthcare in Newcastle-upon-Tyne has seen a suite of Rada products installed in two specialist hospitals. The Newcastle Hospitals PFI project involves rationalisation of the city’s currently fragmented clinical services.
Service panels feature radiant heating
An integrated service panel which can incorporate radiant heating, combining hygienic, space-saving, and energyefficient heating with easily installed and maintained services, has been launched by HCP, the specialist heating division of SAS International.
Privacy and dignity raised
Kaba Door Systems has installed 19 sets of bespoke automatic single sliding door packages at Colchester General Hospital as part of a continuous improvement of patient dignity and privacy there.
Trolley reduces unnecessary handling
With the number of people in the UK classified as obese increasing substantially, Plinth 2000 has introduced a bariatric trolley with a safe working load (SWL) of 320 kg (50 stone), designed to reduce unnecessary patient handling and minimise the risk of client or carer injuries.
Temperature monitoring for blood and medicines
Wi-Fi-based real-time locating system (RTLS) supplier to the healthcare sector Airetrak has enhanced its ResourceView information solution with new Wi-Fi temperature monitoring functionality.
Taking the lead in X-ray protection
A new core formulation from Knauf Drywall is claimed to make a specialist plasterboard “a real alternative” to lead-based radiation shielding for X-ray facilities.
‘Eco-friendly’ wet floor former
Contour Showers has undertaken “major investment in new production processes” to develop its “eco-friendly” Eco-dec recyclable wet floor formers – claimed to have a carbon footprint “70% lower than any similar plastic product on the market”.
Closing the door to infection
A door designed to help fight infection spread, one of the features of which is a patented track system which, in combination with the door’s own weight and a continuous neoprene gasket, “creates a perfect seal against the door frame”, has been launched by Dortek.
Waterless design saves money and energy
The Saracen Waterless Urinal System, distributed exclusively by Plumb Center, is said to cut operational costs, save energy, reduce waste, and “improve the user’s washroom experience”.
Hand sanitisation units offered free
NHS Trusts should find it easier to fight infections with the NHS Supply Chain’s offer of free, battery-operated, SaniPost hand sanitiser stations to hospitals across England and Wales.
‘Flat-pack’ centre built in six weeks
A new “seven-day-a-week” Milton Keynes medical facility is the latest GP-led health centre to use the Terrapin Unitrex “flat pack” building system.
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