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Getinge Lancer, a conglomerate of Getinge UK, Lancer UK, and Numac Validation Services, says it provides a comprehensive range of washer-disinfectors, sterilisers, and automated endoscope reprocessors “to cover all customers’ infection control concerns”, supplying facilities ranging from single dental units to centralised decontamination centres.

Wardray Premise has over 70 years’ experience in the design, manufacture, and installation of X-ray, gamma, neutron, and RF shielding products essential in imaging and radiotherapy departments.

Haigh would like to thank all those who visited its stand at November’s Healthcare Estates event, where the company exhibited the SOLO and award-winning Panaway units from its Sluicemaster range.

With over 80 years’ experience in the design and manufacture of electrical safety systems, Bender UK claims to be a leading provider of Isolated Power Systems (IPS), UPS, surgeons’ panels, and complete operating theatre infrastructure packages, to the UK hospital market.

Aid Call wireless nurse call systems are described as “safe, reliable, and proven”, with over 3,000 systems installed nationwide, and are said to be fast and easy to install, at what the supplier says is “a fraction of the cost of a wired system”.

At this year’s Healthcare Estates conference and exhibition, experts from Spirax Sarco presented seminars explaining how the latest steam system control technologies will help healthcare estates managers meet fast-approaching carbon reduction targets.

A recent survey of the Trend building energy management system and the plant it controls at Bridgewater Place, Leeds, should see significant energy savings at Yorkshire’s tallest building.

Pall Medical is to hold a free-to-attend “educational workshop” on 1 December, 2011 at Jesmond Dene House, Newcastle, focussing on water quality in hospitals, with particular emphasis on waterborne nosocomial infections within healthcare premises, and the provision of safe water for high risk patients.

The Building Better Healthcare Award-winning Optitherm thermostatic tap from Horne Engineering has been designed to assist with infection control, ensure safe surface temperatures, facilitate cleaning and maintenance, and provide thermostatically controlled warm water for handwashing, and dedicated cold water for drinking.

How the Coalition Government’s proposed healthcare reforms will impact on the future estate, ways in which estates and facilities teams can run healthcare facilities even more efficiently.

With less than a month to go until this year’s Healthcare Estates event in Manchester, it is important to remind you about some of the highlights at this year’s conference and exhibition that make this a must-attend event for all those involved in healthcare estates.

Resilience and contingency planning are essential for any major organisation dependent on a continuous, uninterrupted power supply.

One of IHEEM’s newest Company Affiliate Members is Salisbury-based ML Electronics (MLE).

IHEEM is to host a number of “Meet the AE” sessions on its stand (I1) at the Healthcare Estates Conference and Exhibition on 1 and 2 November to underline the importance, to those managing decontamination and medical gases within healthcare facilities.

With decontamination of medical devices very much in the news recently, an IHEEM seminar scheduled for January will tackle this important topic in detail.

Integral, the specialist provider of outsourced building management, maintenance, and engineering services, will present on the subject of “Essential electrical inspections without the need to de-energise”

The latest thinking and developments in facilities management were highlighted at a recent IHEEM seminar held at The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in London.

NHS Trusts face replacing half of all CT and MRI scanners over the next four years at a time when they must deliver a 17% cut to their equipment budget, a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) inquiry has heard.

At last month’s Infection Prevention Society 2011 Annual Conference, Chemex International, a specialist cleaning and hygiene product distributor.

The new 667-space multi-storey car park recently opened at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, and designed, built, and financed by specialist parking operator, VINCI Park UK, sources 10% of its energy from renewable sources.