RECENT NEWS

Schneider Electric continues to develop its range of SMART, connected electrical distribution equipment with its new Masterpact MTZ Air Circuit breaker (ACB).

Visitors to this month’s Healthcare Estates 2016 show in Manchester will be able to pick up a copy of a special Reader Survey Report detailing the results of a survey launched by IHEEM and Wandsworth Healthcare in HEJ in May

In a claimed world first, Medstor will soon start work in Copenhagen with Danish consulting company, ALECTIA, equipping two automated warehouses built to deliver sterile goods and services.

BOC Healthcare says its Cryogenic Safety Course ‘gives everyone working with liquid nitrogen the skills and knowledge needed to handle a potentially dangerous element safely and with confidence’.

Vernacare claims to be ‘the only company to manufacture a single-use human waste disposal system’; it says the system ‘helps to decrease the risk of cross-infection, while improving environmental performance and generating cost savings’.

Work has begun on site to create of one of the first proton beam therapy cancer treatment centres to be built in England.

May this year saw MTX Contracts awarded the contract to design, construct, and commission, a new single-storey Endoscopy Unit for the George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton.

Philips recently announced the publication of a new report – Evidence for Supported Self Care at Scale – detailing the findings of a large-scale supported self-care programme rolled out across Liverpool among 1,808 people living with long-term conditions including diabetes, heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Pall Medical’s new QPoint Shower Filter Assembly, the latest addition to its Point-ofUse Water Filter product range, ‘combines an ergonomic, reusable, chromed shower handle docking station with an exchangeable filter capsule, designed and validated for retention of waterborne microorganisms such as Legionellaspp, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, non-tuberculous Mycobacteria, Escherichia coli, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Cryptosporidium parvum for up to 62 days’.

The first scientists have moved into the new £650 m Francis Crick Institute building in London, and are starting work in their purpose-built laboratories.

Twenty-six of ‘the most digitally advanced’ NHS Trusts have been invited by NHS England to apply for a ‘£100 m+ funding pot’ to ‘become centres of global digital excellence and drive forward better use of technology in health’.

Now available from the exclusive UK channel partner for online sales of the product, Lamp Shop Online, is the Brite Source Pyropanel, reportedly the first certified 30-minute fire-resistant LED light panel available in the UK.

Consulting building services and engineering partnership, Troup Bywaters + Anders (TB+A), has been crowned winner of the Excellence in Social Responsibility (Up to 249 employees) category at the annual Investors in People Awards 2016.

A new anti-climb bullnose fascia system – ‘particularly suitable for hospitals, clinics, and secure facility environments’ – and designed to protect rooflines from unauthorised access and vandalism, is now available from Contour.

Engineers from Andrews Sykes’ Chiller Hire Division were quick to respond recently to a call from a prominent Kent hospital already under severe pressure to cope with increasing patient demand when its chiller broke down without warning.

As the rise of more modern jointing techniques such as push and press continues, Pegler Yorkshire has launched a combined toolkit that ‘gives installers the right equipment to speed up installations’.

C-TEC says its new website is ‘fast, functional, and optimised for enhanced user experience’, and ‘packed with in-depth information on virtually every product’ in the company’s ‘rapidly expanding portfolio of world-class, UK-manufactured life-safety systems’.

The Water Treatment Innovation Platform of global water, energy, and maintenance solutions provider, NCH Europe, has launched aquaDART, a package of fluorescent traced water treatment products and monitoring equipment for accurately controlling the chemical dosing of water systems.

Pneumatech Medical Gas Solutions says its new automatic changeover medical manifold offers ‘outstanding performance, superior quality, and lower total costs ownership’, having been developed in response to customers ‘looking for a more balanced and valued manifold solution, where additional precision is taken to minimise patient risks’.

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has taken delivery of a ‘bespoke’ electric vehicle for transferring trauma patients from its Air Ambulance landing site on the sports field of an adjacent school to the Ipswich Hospital’s Emergency Department.