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Karl Storz says its ‘peerless’ OR1 NEO integrated theatre system now has ‘a new thoroughbred stablemate to meet the demand for light, fast and reliable IP-based switching and routing of surgical images using existing structured cabling’.

Indigo, the specialist in hospital parking management, will be showcasing its latest developments in hospital car parking at the Hospital Innovations event, which takes place at Olympia London from 26-27 April this year.

The event aims to bring together key decision-makers in hospital management responsible for the delivery of patient services across the UK.

With the company’s launch of the Polaris 600 operating theatre light, for the first time ever a Dräger light can now be operated both via touch operation by non-sterile personnel, and by the surgeon.

David Bailey Furniture Systems has recently won the contract for the refurbishment of the International Private Patient Suite at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London.

Cobweb IS has introduced ‘a new innovation in electrical compliance management’.

On January 29, Medical Air Technology (MAT) handed over two newly refurbished operating theatres at the George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton, on time and within budget.

Applications are now open for Eastwood Park’s three new degree programmes, which can be gained while still working – the Foundation Degree in Hospital Engineering (incorporating multi-engineering disciplines: decontamination; medical gases; HVAC; water hygiene; fire; electrical; estates), the Foundation Degree in Medical Equipment Technologies, and the BSc(Hons) Management of Healthcare Engineering Technologies & Facilities.

Mitie’s pest control business is offering a new service combining drone inspection with hawk control to reduce urban seagull infestation.

Now available from accredited Suffolk-based water treatment company, 4i Water Services, the Februus Sentinel System is a dosing system designed to produce chlorine dioxide to prevent the growth and proliferation of Pseudomonas and Legionella in potable water and closed loop water systems

A new trading company within BAM FM – BAM Energy – has been launched ‘to help customers reduce their energy consumption’.

MTX has designed, installed, and commissioned, a new five-storey modular extension at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, completing the entire project in 49 weeks.

Plumbing, heating, and engineering product specialist, Pegler Yorkshire, says its new Warranty Plus scheme was created after research showed ‘a need for warranty on a complete system, rather than individual components’.

The last of six linear accelerators has been delivered and installed at the £160 million new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital.

Zipit Wireless, a US ‘pioneer in connected platform solutions’, and Atus Systems, a Hereford-based supplier of paging and lone worker systems, have announced an exclusive partnership to bring the Zipit Enterprise Critical Messaging Solution to UK healthcare and enterprise customers.

Construction and engineering specialist, MTX Contracts, is on the move to Brooke Court in Handforth, Cheshire, following 30 years at its previous site in High Lane, Stockport.

Supplier of industrial humidifiers, Humidity Solutions, has warned that when assessing operating theatre humidity control requirements, ‘engineers need to be sure they have fully understood both the engineering and the clinical considerations’.

An online scheme that has helped NHS Trusts save £517,000 in two years by sharing resources such as furniture and medical equipment has set itself the target of supporting NHS clients in saving £1 m this year.

As part a major refurbishment programme, Lanes Group was recently commissioned to carry out a comprehensive CCTV drainage survey at Bristol Royal Infirmary.

Static Systems Group has added additional facilities to its Fusion-IP Aspire wireless nurse call system to bring its capabilities ‘more in line’ with those of its wired systems.

A new acoustic baffling sculpture designed by London-based architectural practice, Studio Weave, for the atrium of a new seven-storey ward block at Bristol Royal Infirmary, not only provides interest and distraction, but also, say the arts and health consultants who managed the installation, Willis Newson, reduces noise levels and provides patient privacy.