RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Evac+Chair International has provided NHS Halton and St Helens’ Primary Care Trust (PCT) with “a simple and cost-effective” means of evacuating staff and patients from its clinics and health centres in emergency.

London’s King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has installed three new highly efficient Byworth Boilers steam boilers.

Promised from Zehnder’s new “Carboline” radiant heating and cooling panels, which comprise copper tubes embedded into a graphite panel, is “extremely even heat distribution with exceptional controllability”.

PKL Foodservice has supplied a complete kitchen and restaurant facility to North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH) to provide temporary catering during an £80 m PFI re-build.

Acrovyn Hydroclad from Construction Specialties (UK) is “the ideal wall cladding surface” for locations such as operating theatres, hospital kitchens and laboratories where hygiene is critical.

Specialist in hazardous material storage Denios (www.denios.co.uk) has produced “an essential guide” which clarifies all of the information and UK regulations for using, handling and properly containing all such items.

SAS International has developed a new CIBSE-recognised CPD presentation on radiant heating. Designed for both engineers and architects,

Among services offered by a company formed by husband and wife team Paul and Kathy Blair in April 2008 are gutter cleaning, maintenance and repair, roof and skylight repair and replacement, re-testing of safety wire systems, and roof maintenance, inspection and appraisal.

Codelocks’ new heavy duty CL600 mechanical locks incorporate a new “Quick Code” system that allows ondoor code changing “in seconds” using the keypad on the lock’s front.

SpeedDeck has provided its secret fix roofing solution and Vitesse architectural cladding panels for the new extension to the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust’s radiotherapy department in Sutton, Surrey.

The way that a growing “body” of artwork has come together in UK healthcare facilities, and the increasing acknowledgment of art’s benefits on the overall “quality” of the patient experience, and speed of recovery, were the themes of a recent “National Patient Environment and the Arts Conference 2009” held in London.

Delegates at Building Better Healthcare’s recent “National Patient Environment and the Arts Conference 2009” in London heard how national public arts think tank ixia has appointed Bristol-based arts and wellbeing development agency Willis Newson to write “concise and convincing guidance” on commissioning art for new healthcare facilities.

Catalyst Healthcare, the PFI consortium managing the Manchester New Hospitals Development, has specified Armitage Shanks’ modern mixer taps and specially designed toilets for the new £500 m healthcare complex.

A self-powered, robust, portable trolley cart for its computer terminals designed to provide medical staff and patients with easy, instant access to information has been launched by JAOtech.

A “whole room” single portable unit disinfection & air purification system that reportedly deodorises and refreshes air, removes and sterilises dust and airborne particles, and controls contamination by virus, bacteria, mould, and fungus, has been unveiled by PureLightUK.

C-TECs “cost-effective and versatile” addressable call system, Quantec, has been specified by nurse call and panic alarm specialist Contract Distributors for a new £7.5 million healthcare facility in Great Malvern, Worcestershire.

Fitted furniture valued at £371,000 from David Bailey Furniture Systems has been specified by architects Watkins Gray International for many of the main wards and reception areas at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children as part of a series of refurbishment projects undertaken by construction company Mansell.

Trend says the look, feel and mode of operation of the IQView4 touch screen display for its building management systems will be “instantly familiar” to anyone with an MP3 player, satellite navigation system or modern mobile phone.

Gradus has installed wall protection and barrier matting at a new treatment centre at King’s Mill Hospital, Mansfield.

Installers and healthcare estate managers “seeking a traditional appearance, yet a more user-friendly economic alternative to cast iron guttering”, should look no further, Marshall-Tufflex says, than the company’s new Universal Elegance cast iron appearance system.