RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Offered on Stand 32 will be information on what Integrated Handheld Solutions describes as “a market-leading suite of software to meet the demands of the modern NHS”.

Recruitment consultancy and supplier of interim and permanent managers and executives to NHS healthcare estates and facilities departments Fine Green Associates has recently received its second Buying Solutions (formerly NHS PASA) framework award.

Two key PHS business groups will be exhibiting at this year’s HefmA annual event. Claiming to be the UK’s leading washroom services provider, PHS Washrooms offers nationwide coverage, flexibility, and over 40 years’ experience, “providing total service management”, and says it can fulfil washroom requirements both regularly, and in emergency.

Continuous investment in the latest technology is, Medical Services says, keeping the company ahead as an independent provider of patient transport services to the NHS.

A “radically designed” new open protocol fire alarm system, and a “concept single-bed ward”, will be the focal points for specialist healthcare communications provider Static Systems.

Intastop will launch what it says is the world’s first fire-rated double swing hinge – described as “the perfect solution for doors that need to swing 180 degrees”. Marketing director Sarah Barsby said:

Specialist consultancy NIFES was established over 55 years ago to advise the UK’s energy users on ways to improve efficiency, but today offers a significantly wider service portfolio.

BOC Healthcare’s Medical Engineering Services (MES) division was established to assist users of medical gases in complying with legislation and codes of practice.

Schneider Electric will showcase its extensive range of solutions for the healthcare sector. Experts from the global energy management specialist will be on hand to discuss the company’s wide range of products and services, which include “demand response”, a scheme via which hospitals can earn revenue by using their existing back-up generators.

Market testing, benchmarking, best value reviews, medical device management, and “collaborative working”, are among the services on which management consultant Green & Kassab has worked with NHS facilities management teams over the past two decades, helping them achieve “real quality improvements and tangible financial savings”.

Being shown by Wybone will be the company’s complete range of sackholders, which come in all shapes, sizes, and colours, with 15 to 98 litre capacities, and in a choice of colours from yellow to zebra stripes, “or even a soothing metallic colour”.

Haigh’s Sluicemaster bedpan disposers are designed both to ensure that patients benefit from a new, clean bedpan every time, and that purchasers achieve “significant” cost and energy savings.

Property compliance software specialist NHS Micad will demonstrate a number of new updates and developments it says have been driven by the latest NHS estates strategic thinking on areas including space utilisation, room monitoring, and booking.

Lisclare says the wallmounted or mobile folding screens from Silentia that it will be showing provide a flexible means to segregate genders, “improving privacy and generally helping maintain the dignity of patients on an open ward”.

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.

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.

Plumb Center now exclusively offers Saracen Washroom Solutions, a range of standard and bespoke cubicles, ducting, and vanity units, designed for wide-ranging applications.

Offering “a unique service” to diagnostic imaging departments – from design, build, and refurbishment, of clinical rooms, to provision of an interim mobile equipment solution –

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.

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”.