RECENT NEWS

Spirax Sarco will field ‘an expert presence’, with a team of steam specialists available to offer advice on energy-related needs.

Rada, the ‘experts’ in commercial showering and washroom controls, has over 80 years’ experience in healthcare.

Expert in anti-ligature door, window, and load-release hardware fittings, Primera Life, is ‘delighted to be at Healthcare Estates again’ after a successful 2013 event.

Global water treatment and filtration provider, Envirogen Water Technologies, parent company of Environmental Water Systems, has significantly extended its consumables range.

Elliott has unveiled ‘a cost-effective, rentable healthcare building solution’.

Thirteen operating theatres – eight at Watford General Hospital, and five at St Albans City Hospital – have been upgraded by Starkstrom after the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust successfully bid for special funds from the Department of Health.

Fire alarm monitoring solutions specialist, Drax Technology, has launched a new Training Academy at its Letchworth headquarters.

Virgin Media Business is to supply community health provider, Sirona, with 4G mobile connectivity, in partnership with EE, to support the delivery of home healthcare to patients across the UK.

Wireless nurse call specialist, Courtney- Thorne, has appointed Duncan Crocker as its UK engineering and services manager.

Trumpf Medical Systems is now part of Hill-Rom Holdings, following an acquisition process that closed on 1 August, placing the company ‘at the heart of a group completely focused on medical technology’.

Six months after opening its purpose- built training centre at its Sheffield headquarters, specialist fall protection company, Eurosafe Solutions, has released a new training brochure detailing its extensive on and off-site training services to anyone involved with Work at Height.

Capita has been appointed to project manage the demolition of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Rosenheim Building in central London.

A new range of TMV2 and TMV3 Opac mini shower valves for commercial applications from Bristan – available in exposed and concealed versions – is designed to simplify installation and maintenance.

The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has given more details on the availability of, and bidding criteria for, funds from one of three new £10 million funding streams unveiled in June (HEJ – August 2014) by the then Skills and Enterprise Minister, Matthew Hancock, to boost the UK engineering workforce.

Architecture practice, Barr Gazetas, has designed a new wing for The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in Clerkenwell, reportedly London’s only facility of its kind.

The Carillion Health cleaning team at the Royal London Hospital is piloting ‘an innovative infection control solution’ via a six-week trial featuring a UV-C light ‘triple tower technology system’ reportedly never before used in the UK.

Altro Whiterock’s Digiclad digitally printed wall cladding has helped create a particularly imaginative and eye- catching interior in the main lobby at the recently expanded Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where its depiction of brightly-coloured scenes of woodland life, including flying birds, butterflies, wildflowers, trees, and falling leaves, has proven popular with young patients.

Tarasafe Ultra H2O is a new addition to Gerflor’s best-selling Tarasafe Ultra range of slip-resistant safety flooring for use in ‘traditional barefoot spaces with continuous wet areas’.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, as part of a ‘Better Training Better Care’ pilot sponsored by Health Education England, have joined with Virtual College to develop a free online training course – ‘An Introduction to Telemedicine’.

Baxi Commercial has appointed Andrew Maclagan as its new managing director.