RECENT NEWS

Automated vacuum waste collection technology that efficiently transports hospital ‘waste’ at up to 70 kms / hr through a network of pipes hidden underground or located within the core of the building to a collection station on the site perimeter has been installed in four Finnish hospitals.

Armitage Shanks has launched new Doc M packs to make it easier for specifiers and building managers to ensure that their facilities fulfil Part M of the Building Regulations and satisfy the 2010 Equality Act.

Businesses have yet to get to grips with the Apprenticeship Levy – a recent gathering of HR and operational professionals in the utilities and construction sector from companies including SGN, Siemens, Interserve, Skanska UK, Morrison Utility Services, and FCC Environment at an Industry Skills Forum co-organised by Develop Training (DTL) and Mentor Training Solutions – concluded.

An ‘exciting vision’ for the future of West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, and the health and wellbeing of people in West Cumbria has been revealed by North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, with what the Trust says are ‘ huge opportunities for people in the community to help shape how it will look’.

Building services design consultancy and IHEEM Company Affiliate, Troup Bywaters + Anders (TB+A), was commended for its commitment to training and skills excellence by The Princess Royal at a recent ceremony at London’s St James’s Palace.

This year, the team at Medical Air Technology (MAT) has chosen to make a donation to a local charity rather than sending cards and gifts to clients.

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has announced £6.3 bn in new funding ‘for frontline services and upgrades to NHS buildings and facilities in England’, in his Autumn Budget Statement.

Skanska has selected Hoval boilers fitted with Riello dual fuel low NOx burners for the New Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire.

Ninety-four Fieger louvre windows installed at the Banbridge Health and Care Centre in Northern Ireland allow natural light and ventilation to permeate and provide visual connection with landscaped courtyards and gardens.

Designing state-of-the-art surgical skills training centres has become a speciality for Leeds-based Brandon Medical; the company has recently equipped two new ‘state-of-the-art’ surgical skills training centres at the University of Keele (pictured), and at the Smith & Nephew Expert Connect Centre near York, which specialises in orthopaedics training.

One of the UK’s ‘leading luxury shower manufacturers’ has launched a technology to help prevent scalding in the shower.

‘In response to customer needs and the evolving hospital environment’, BOC Healthcare has extended its training service to ‘incorporate a more modern, flexible ethos’.

Bathroom pod manufacturer, Offsite Solutions, has been awarded the contract to supply bathroom pods for the new £69 m East Lothian Community Hospital.

A recent decontamination seminar held at Eastwood Park in conjunction with IHEEM saw eminent speakers including 3M Development Scientist, Dr Brian Kirk (pictured addressing delegates), and Science and Technical director at STERIS Corporation, Richard Bancroft, discuss the application of chemical and biological process indicators and low temperature sterilisation processes.

DELABIE’s BIOCLIP mixers play an important role in infection control. They protect patients and staff from scalding where temperature control is the primary method of managing Legionella in water systems. However, they also offer estate teams flexibility when scheduling routine maintenance and long term facility planning.

The latest information on the legal duties and responsibilities for owners and users of liquid gas storage tanks has been issued by the British Compressed Gases Association (BCGA).

UK-based lighting, operating theatre equipment, and medical ‘AV’ systems specialist, Brandon Medical, has received a letter of gratitude from John Lownds, deputy head of trade at the UKTI Life Sciences Organisation, in recognition of its continuing success overseas.

Ascom, a ‘global healthcare ICT and mobile workflow solutions provider’, and medical and safety technology specialist, Dräger, are to partner to integrate Ascom’s Unite clinical messaging platform and Dräger’s patient monitoring systems.

A ‘complete Altro floors and walls solution’ has given a relaxing, stylish, and ‘home-from-home’ feel to a new birthing centre at Hull Women and Children’s Hospital.

NHS Property Services (NHSPS) has launched a ‘vacant space handback scheme’ to help NHS commissioners cut the cost of empty space in their buildings.