RECENT NEWS

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Memoranda – is a vital part of health facility design but, Architects for Health (AfH) believes, is ‘increasingly out of date and suffering from lack of recent investment’.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

NHS hospitals across England made over £120 million from car park charges in 2015/2016, an investigation has found.

The Healthcare sector of Compass Group UK & Ireland – the UK’s largest food and support services firm – will be providing retail services to Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as part of a new 15-year contract worth an estimated £25.5 million overall.

German Chancellor, Dr. Angela Merkel, and Tarek Al-Wazir, Minister of Economics, Energy, Transportation, and Regional Development of the state of Hesse, have opened the Viessmann Innovation Centre, the Viessmann Group’s new € 50 million technological research and development centre in Allendorf in Germany.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is offering up to £30,000 in funding for creative projects that engage the public with engineers and engineering.

Entries for the 2017 CIBSE ASHRAE Graduate of the Year and CIBSE Employer of the Year prizes, which celebrate ‘the industry’s best examples of young engineering talent’, and ‘employers’ strategies for recruiting, nurturing, and empowering young people’, must be received by 1 August.

Lanes Group has undertaken a major drainage surveying and cleaning programme as part of a £38 million refurbishment scheme at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

A ‘state-of-the-art’ healthcare facility has won first place in the public health and education category in the biennial Architectural Ironmongery Specification Awards, organised by the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Medical Air Technology (MAT) continues to grow, welcoming Will Evans to the team as Business Development Manager.