RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital has installed Drax (UK)’s Connect SMS monitoring system.

Sangamo Lighting’s upgrading of a link corridor lighting system within the Royal Edinburgh Hospital has reportedly brought client NHS Lothian an energy saving in the area of over 70% per annum, with a payback period of under 18 months.

Andy Whiteley (pictured) has become the new divisional director of Andrews Air Conditioning Services (AACS), with a remit to align the business more closely with the group’s air conditioning hire division as part of the company’s growth strategy.

HCP has supplied 970 linear metres of radiant heating panels to the new £60 million Bristol Heart Institute.

Paxton Access’s new “vandal resistant” compact metal keypad is an all-in-one system for outdoor gates and barriers.

Pegler Yorkshire has launched a range of TMV3 in-line thermostatic mixing valves designed to eliminate the risk of scalding in hospitals and care homes.

One of the UK’s first new “super hospitals”, currently under construction by Balfour Beatty Construction for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, is said to be unique in that hundreds of staff and a number of patient representatives have not only helped design it, but have also selected its medical products.

Douglas Delabie says that, “with an alarming 5 –12% of patients in Europe each year contracting a nosocomial infection” its new “specialist” water controls are “sure to be of interest for healthcare professionals”.

British Gypsum GypWall partitions have been selected for all five phases of the Manchester Joint Hospitals PFI project, bringing the total value of the company’s products specified to over £3.5 million.

German “flooring care” company Dr Schutz describes its new “PU Design” product as “an innovative solution that quickly and easily transforms tired, damaged or old vinyl, linoleum or rubber floors at a fraction of the time and cost of a floor replacement”.

Patients in Nottingham are the UK’s first to benefit from a new range of textiles with “proven protection” against healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs).

The Paramount MB from Potterton Commercial is a modular prefabricated condensing heating solution suitable for new and existing plant rooms within a variety of applications, including hospitals.

An easy-to-clean floor supplied and installed by Ryebrook Resins is a key feature of the new mortuary at Milton Keynes General Hospital.

A hand-held spray reportedly proven to be effective against the H1N1 swine flu virus has been launched by a British company.

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.