RECENT NEWS

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has described as ‘brilliant’ the service provided to it by Devon Medical Equipment as part of a CT scanner replacement programme.

A new Healthcare Centre of Excellence at the company’s Miskin site, near Cardiff, recently formally opened by Wales’s First Minister, The Rt Hon Carwyn Jones AM, provides global precision engineering company, Renishaw, with a facility both for the manufacture of custom medical devices, and education and training for the life sciences community.

ENGIE has been awarded a contract to carry out a full refurbishment of the Leeds Generating Station Complex (GSC), jointly owned by the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Brandon Medical describes its new screenless ‘complanate’ ultraclean ventilation system, Mediclean, as ‘truly unique, offering a vast improvement to patient safety and surgical outcomes’.

Howorth Air Technology, which distributes, installs, commissions, and services, all Trumpf operating lights and pendants in mainland UK (excluding Northern Ireland), says the new Trumpf TruLight 5000 operating theatre light is a versatile product that ‘combines adaptability with efficiency’, plus ‘the ease of use and investment security required to future-proof any hospital’.

BOC Healthcare’s Authorised Person Medical Gas Pipeline System (MGPS) service supports healthcare facilities that may not be large enough to warrant their own qualified engineer on-site, such as community hospitals and hospices.

Powerscout, launched at last month’s Healthcare Estates 2016 event, is a webbased software monitoring tool designed to analyse and report on the ‘health and condition’ of electrical installations, and – via permanent monitoring, to give ‘an immediate real-time picture of the entire data for single or multiple site locations’.

“When you’re facing a life or death situation, will you spend vital seconds searching for the right key? Will you discover the keyway has been jammed? Will you call ‘Maintenance’, and then wait for them to call a locksmith? All this time and those vital seconds have been ticking by.”

Sika provided the durable, hygienic coating system to ensure that the walls and floors of one of Europe’s largest biomedical research facilities world remain infection and contamination-free

After less than five months on site, the Portakabin Group has handed over a £2 million, four-storey building for office support staff at the University Hospital Southampton, which will also create space for further development.

Generous parents (Gill and Matthew Ashton) raised money to improve the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Royal Oldham Hospital.

‘Performance’, ‘Inspiration’, and ‘Aspiration’, are the keywords behind the 2016 Building Performance Conference and Exhibition, organised by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), as it officially launches this year’s programme.

With medical workstations in ICUs, CCUs, recovery, PICU, and operating rooms ‘subject to new challenges and modifications almost daily’, Trumpf Medical’s ‘highly flexible’ supply system, TruPort, has a modular design that allows users to integrate new components whenever necessary, ‘or to completely reconfigure the supply units’.

International design and technology firm, IBI Group, has been appointed as specialist advisor in support of the NHS England Healthy New Towns programme.

Looking ‘to revolutionise’ the way estates teams countrywide deal with the ACoP L8’s requirement for quarterly de-scaling and deep cleaning of showerheads and hoses, Dupal UK has created a purpose-built recyclable showerhead

Schneider Electric continues to develop its range of SMART, connected electrical distribution equipment with its new Masterpact MTZ Air Circuit breaker (ACB).

Visitors to this month’s Healthcare Estates 2016 show in Manchester will be able to pick up a copy of a special Reader Survey Report detailing the results of a survey launched by IHEEM and Wandsworth Healthcare in HEJ in May

In a claimed world first, Medstor will soon start work in Copenhagen with Danish consulting company, ALECTIA, equipping two automated warehouses built to deliver sterile goods and services.

BOC Healthcare says its Cryogenic Safety Course ‘gives everyone working with liquid nitrogen the skills and knowledge needed to handle a potentially dangerous element safely and with confidence’.

Vernacare claims to be ‘the only company to manufacture a single-use human waste disposal system’; it says the system ‘helps to decrease the risk of cross-infection, while improving environmental performance and generating cost savings’.