RECENT NEWS

Shropshire’s 38-bed Whitchurch Community Hospital has installed a 250 kW output Hamworthy Biomatic biomass boiler.

The Carbon Trust Advice Line has launched a guide explaining how a wide range of organisations can cut energy bills via an effective energy management strategy.

A £100 million specialist cancer centre development designed by Arup and Hopkins Architects will open next April in central London, offering patients, their families, and carers, a range of holistic, patient-focused therapeutic and specialist services.

Natural ventilation specialist, Breathing Buildings, presented what the Cambridge University-spin-off low energy ventilation specialist described as “an innovative toolkit for mechanical engineers” at this year’s Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Technical Symposium, held at Leicester’s De Montfort University.

A 'complete helpdesk and maintenance management solution' by Real Asset Management (RAM) – designed specifically for NHS estates departments.

Trend’s message to visitors at this year’s show was that 84% of a healthcare estate’s energy consumption can be controlled by a building energy management system (BEMS); thus “just by making this asset work harder, significant energy and carbon savings can be made”.

Gilgen Door Systems showcased its expertise in commercial and industrial door automation, highlighting the quality of its nationwide maintenance and emergency repair services, and 'demonstrating core strengths and technological leadership'.

Pall's latest GeneDisc Cycler is an automated, miniaturised, real-time PCR system providing rapid, sensitive and specific pathogen detection, with an 'intuitive design and easy-to-use software' that the company says allows 'even minimally-trained personnel' to routinely perform sophisticated biological testing.

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.