RECENT NEWS

The Design Council has been funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to create a new online ‘Inclusive Design Hub’ for the built environment.

MTX has won the contract for a new SSCU (surgical special care unit) modular extension to the Lyme Building at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, adding an additional 12 critical care beds.

Howorth Air Technology has added a relocatable permanent or semi- permanent ‘isolation room’ to its portfolio – BioSphere – via which it says hospitals can safely contain HCAIs (healthcare-associated infections), and ‘provide absolute biological decontamination’ in just 24 hours.

BOC Healthcare, the UK’s largest medical gases business, has added MEC Medical oxygen and suction therapy devices to its portfolio of medical equipment for distribution across the UK and Ireland.

IHEEM and Eastwood Park will launch a new competency-based programme for Authorised Persons and Authorising Engineers.

Specialist in commercial glazing systems, Fendor, says it has gained a reputation for bringing innovative design to the annual Healthcare Estates event, ‘this year being no exception’.

With over a decade’s experience of working in partnership with the NHS, Eric Wright Group (EWG) says it ‘understands the importance of providing an integrated estates solution to meet the changing needs of the public sector’.

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.