RECENT NEWS

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.

The new £28 million hospital wing at Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI) features a ‘bespoke’ Aid Call Touchsafe Pro wireless nurse call system.

IDEXX, a specialist in rapid microbiology testing for water, has announced the launch across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, of Legiolert, a new culture testing method that it says enables building owners and facility managers to simplify water testing and reduce the risk posed by Legionnaires’ disease.

Eastwood Park will from this month be offering ‘a unique suite’ of new 1.5-day hospital estate-related courses, focusing on ‘PFI’, ‘the Premises Assurance Model (PAM) and the Care Quality Commission (CQC)’, and ‘Energy management and sustainability’, delivered in partnership with estates and facilities management experts, GK Group.

A comprehensive new 120-page guide to carbon and energy saving for NHS Trusts co-produced by IHEEM, HefmA, and the Carbon and Energy Fund (CEF), which the authors say ‘covers every aspect of the energy infrastructure upgrade process’, will be launched at this month’s Healthcare Estates 2017 event in Manchester.

Cundall has supported Edinburgh-based charity, It’s good 2 give!, by helping build Ripple Retreat, its recently opened respite house for young people with cancer and their families, ‘a beautifully serene £1 m retreat’ on the southern bank of Loch Venachar in Callander.