RECENT NEWS

A Turbidity Monitoring System for detecting non-conductive contaminants such as fats, oils, and greases, in condensate, enabling steam system operators ‘to recover substantial amounts of energy that would otherwise be lost’, has been launched by Spirax Sarco.

Grundon Waste Management has acquired Arundelle, a specialist industrial services and cleaning company, in a deal Grundon says will enable it to expand its services into key areas such as confined spaces cleaning, decontamination, site decommissioning, pollution control, scheduled inspection and maintenance, and Hazpack /Hazmat spill response.

Codelocks is offering NHS estates and facilities managers the opportunity to attend a free digital lock training course to help them improve access control within healthcare buildings.

A new health facility for Barrow is now closer following Cumbria County Council’s sale of the former Alfred Barrow School site to eLIFT Cumbria.

MD of specialist ventilation cleaning services provider, InDepth Hygiene, Richard Norman, has been appointed chairman of the Building and Engineering Services Association’s (B&ES) Ventilation Hygiene branch.

Dalkia has supplied the St-Anne St-Remi Hospital in Brussels with CHP to lower its utilities costs via the use of a single fuel source for electricity and hot water generation. The system is expected to save the hospital some 370 tonnes of CO2 annually.

Specialist in x-ray shielding products, Raybloc, has developed a new twostage warning light for incorporation into its doors.

Liverpool’s Aintree University Hospital has worked with B&M Waste Services to reduce its clinical waste output by over 28 tonnes a month, while around 300 tonnes of ‘offensive’ waste is collected annually and sent to landfill sites, where the methane produced is captured and re-used to generate electricity.

The IFHE continues to enjoy a close working relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO), writes the Federation’s WHO liaison officer, Paul Merlevede, who attended a Global Forum on Medical Devices held in late November last year at the Organization’s Geneva offices.

The conference programme for the 23rd IFHE World Congress, to be held at the UCA University in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, from 12-16 October this year (HEJ – February, May, and August 2013, and February 2014), is an extremely varied and topical one.

To help ensure that members of the Institute’s Yorkshire Branch fully understand current emergency lighting regulations and standards, Alan Daniels, technical director at P4, one of the UK’s leading self-testing emergency lighting specialists, recently updated Branch members on recent changes to the ‘pivotal reference code of practice in the UK’, BS5266 Part 1.

David Easton, chair of IHEEM’s Medical Devices Technology Platform, says he is keen that ‘all interested parties’ are aware that the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) has published its revision of the Device Bulletin 2006(5) November 2006.

meeting of Authorising Engineers (MGPS) – all members of IHEEM’s register for such personnel – held in London recently saw a variety of topics discussed, a work plan agreed for the forthcoming year, and our two overseas members from Germany.

IHEEM has announced that it is to jointly manage, and support, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine’s (IPEM) Voluntary Register of Clinical Technologists (VRCT), in conjunction with IPEM and the Association of Renal Technologies (ART).

IHEEM President, Greg Markham, has been invited to speak at the Hospital Build & Infrastructure Middle East Exhibition & Congress (HBI-ME), being held at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre from 2-4 June 2014.

A ‘compelling free programme of events examining some of the key issues impacting on the estates departments responsible for maintaining and running hospitals efficiently’.

Forbo Flooring Systems’ Eternal project vinyl and Surestep safety vinyl products feature within a £6 millon Neighbourhood Health Centre in Anfield, Liverpool. Considerable community involvement during the Townsend Lane development saw local people put forward their requirements, whilst being kept ‘in the loop’ throughout.

Two ‘state-of-the-art’, recently opened, NHS health centres in Colne and Great Harwood in Lancashire have been fitted with ‘sophisticated lifesafety equipment’ from C-TEC by installation company Solid State.

Staff members at Brian House Children’s Hospice in Blackpool have seen the difference a sensory environment can make to children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions.

The Kent Institute of Medicine & Surgery (KIMS), a £95 million independent hospital on a seven-acre site near Maidstone, which, it is claimed, will ‘transform acute and specialist health provision in the county’, has been officially opened by HRH The Duke of Gloucester.