RECENT NEWS

Vernacare – whose single-use human waste management system is reportedly used by 96% of NHS Trusts, and in healthcare facilities in 48 countries – has agreed a five-year supply deal with Manipal, one of Asia’s largest healthcare management groups.

The Barts Heart Centre in London, one of Europe’s largest specialist cardiovascular complexes, is now treating over 200 patients a day under one roof for the first time.

A new high voltage (HV) electrical training facility has been equipped with specialist test equipment from Seaward to ensure the highest standards of technical tuition and learning.

DELABIE, the European market leader for water controls and sanitary fittings in the public and commercial sector, has modelled its core products to meet the requirements of BIM technology.

Thermometry expert, TME, which exhibited for the second year running at last month’s Healthcare Estates exhibition, says its now ‘top-selling’ digital thermometer for Legionella applications, the MM2008 Legionella Thermometer, was developed ‘following valuable feedback on the problems experienced at the sharp end of water safety management’ from risk assessors and engineers attending the 2015 show.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has described as ‘brilliant’ the service provided to it by Devon Medical Equipment as part of a CT scanner replacement programme.

A new Healthcare Centre of Excellence at the company’s Miskin site, near Cardiff, recently formally opened by Wales’s First Minister, The Rt Hon Carwyn Jones AM, provides global precision engineering company, Renishaw, with a facility both for the manufacture of custom medical devices, and education and training for the life sciences community.

ENGIE has been awarded a contract to carry out a full refurbishment of the Leeds Generating Station Complex (GSC), jointly owned by the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Brandon Medical describes its new screenless ‘complanate’ ultraclean ventilation system, Mediclean, as ‘truly unique, offering a vast improvement to patient safety and surgical outcomes’.

Howorth Air Technology, which distributes, installs, commissions, and services, all Trumpf operating lights and pendants in mainland UK (excluding Northern Ireland), says the new Trumpf TruLight 5000 operating theatre light is a versatile product that ‘combines adaptability with efficiency’, plus ‘the ease of use and investment security required to future-proof any hospital’.

BOC Healthcare’s Authorised Person Medical Gas Pipeline System (MGPS) service supports healthcare facilities that may not be large enough to warrant their own qualified engineer on-site, such as community hospitals and hospices.

Powerscout, launched at last month’s Healthcare Estates 2016 event, is a webbased software monitoring tool designed to analyse and report on the ‘health and condition’ of electrical installations, and – via permanent monitoring, to give ‘an immediate real-time picture of the entire data for single or multiple site locations’.

“When you’re facing a life or death situation, will you spend vital seconds searching for the right key? Will you discover the keyway has been jammed? Will you call ‘Maintenance’, and then wait for them to call a locksmith? All this time and those vital seconds have been ticking by.”

Sika provided the durable, hygienic coating system to ensure that the walls and floors of one of Europe’s largest biomedical research facilities world remain infection and contamination-free

After less than five months on site, the Portakabin Group has handed over a £2 million, four-storey building for office support staff at the University Hospital Southampton, which will also create space for further development.

Generous parents (Gill and Matthew Ashton) raised money to improve the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Royal Oldham Hospital.

‘Performance’, ‘Inspiration’, and ‘Aspiration’, are the keywords behind the 2016 Building Performance Conference and Exhibition, organised by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), as it officially launches this year’s programme.

With medical workstations in ICUs, CCUs, recovery, PICU, and operating rooms ‘subject to new challenges and modifications almost daily’, Trumpf Medical’s ‘highly flexible’ supply system, TruPort, has a modular design that allows users to integrate new components whenever necessary, ‘or to completely reconfigure the supply units’.

International design and technology firm, IBI Group, has been appointed as specialist advisor in support of the NHS England Healthy New Towns programme.

Looking ‘to revolutionise’ the way estates teams countrywide deal with the ACoP L8’s requirement for quarterly de-scaling and deep cleaning of showerheads and hoses, Dupal UK has created a purpose-built recyclable showerhead