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As part of an ongoing commitment to empowering staff to understand and use medical gases safely, BOC Healthcare has extended its e-learning provision ‘to give hospitals even more flexibility’ in how they use its training packages and monitor staff participation.

The US$1.5 billion Ikitelli integrated health campus public-private partnership (PPP) project in Istanbul, which, once complete, will be the world’s largest health campus built on seismic isolators, has reached financial close.

Three ‘unique and specialist’ degree programmes – Foundation Degrees in Hospital Engineering and Medical Equipment Technologies, and a BSc (Hons) in Management of Healthcare Engineering Technologies & Facilities – start at Eastwood Park next month, and, the Gloucestershire-based training establishment points out, ‘there is not long left to apply’.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust’s vascular service has successfully completed its integration onto one site, with the re-location of some services from the Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI) to the city’s Glenfield Hospital.

A £7 m investment in making Harrogate District Hospital more energy-efficient means an estimated £625,000 per year for the next 25 years (over £15.6 million in total) can instead be spent on direct patient care, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust says.

Cleaning operations at the new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital in London are being managed by CK Group and an in-house team using ‘innovative’ TASKI machines and equipment from Diversey Care.

Medstor had designed and delivered an operating theatre storage system for all three of NHS Lanarkshire’s hospitals that has provided safer, more efficient storage for theatre instrument tray packs, streamlined the entire storage system, and helped reduce wastage on surplus stock.

An architect’s vision for a ‘wave-effect’ building with no roof protrusions, to mirror the sinuous lines of nearby hills, has been achieved with the help of drainage ventilation expert, Studor.

A handheld thermometer which scans barcodes to record the identity of individual taps, showers, and sinks, is ‘transforming Legionella water management in hospitals’, claims TME Thermometers, which will show the device at Healthcare Esates 2017.

Offsite Solutions, a leading UK bathroom pod manufacturer, has announced a £5 million investment programme to expand its Somerset production facilities.

Former Starkstrom sales director, Will Evans, has joined Medical Air Technology (MAT) as business development manager, in a role in which he will work with the company’s sales team to develop new initiatives and protocols to further advance the business.

The engineering profession has reviewed and launched a key guidance document on ethical behaviour and decision making.

Resident care has undergone ‘a hi-tech revolution’ at a Sheffield care home as it becomes Yorkshire’s first to install what the manufacturer dubs ‘a pioneering new generation of nurse call system designed to prioritise care for the most vulnerable’.

Existing healthcare design guidance – mainly Health Building Notes and Health Technical Memoranda – is a vital part of health facility design but, Architects for Health (AfH) believes, is ‘increasingly out of date and suffering from lack of recent investment’.

Getinge Group says its new range of Moduevo ceiling supply units can be deployed ‘in diverse healthcare environments’, with the pendants ensuring that vital utilities and equipment are easily accessible, and ‘streamlining workflows and improving efficiency’.

Specialist provider of healthcare alarm and communication solutions, Static Systems Group, recently welcomed members of The Worshipful Company of Engineers (WCoE) to its Staffordshire headquarters.

Filtration and water treatment product supplier, Fileder Filter Systems, has released a full validation guide for Pentair’s X-Flow Medical Shower & Tap range of filter products.

MTX says it is ‘extremely proud’ to have secured a place on the local authority procurement specialist LHC’s Modular Buildings (MB1) Framework.

Leading tap and shower manufacturer for healthcare, Bristan, has announced it will be developing ‘a ground-breaking white paper on the current state of infection control for water delivery products, based on the insight of industry stakeholders’.

‘As the world transitions from analogue to digital’, Legrand Assisted Living & Healthcare says it has been ‘leading the digitalisation agenda in technology-enabled care services (TECs)’ by discussing the implications of the switchover at six Digital Roadshow events held across the UK – ‘from Glasgow to London’