RECENT NEWS

Outsourced decontamination and sterilisation services specialist, IHSS, has introduced new services ‘to meet the changing needs of the healthcare sector for flexible endoscope reprocessing’.

New guidance to help facilities managers manage the transition to ‘agile working’ within their organisation has been published by the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM).

Horbury Group, a 1,000-strong Group providing construction solutions to developers, building owners, and main contractors UK-wide, has established a new trading company – Horbury Property Services – dedicated to providing facilities management, maintenance, and refurbishment.

Members of IHEEM’s South West Branch were the first to hear a new presentation put together by Static Systems entitled ‘Nurse Call Systems – should I go wired or wireless?’, given at a recent Branch technical meeting at Gleeds’ Bristol office.

Kohler Mira has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation for its Mira Flight Safe anti-slip range of shower trays, which incorporate two integral finishes – Mira Safe anti-slip and the anti-bacterial, BioCote – that will reportedly ‘never wear or peel off or wash away’.

Novus Property Solutions has helped reconnect two parts of the site at Royal Stoke University Hospital via an extensive elevated walkway repair.

Sluice room solutions specialist, DDC Dolphin, has appointed James Smith as International Business development director as it – as the company puts it – moves closer towards its ‘ambitious global growth plans’ within the healthcare market.

Sir Keir Starmer, Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, visited Brandon Medical in Morley, West Yorkshire on 28 April, where he discussed with joint MD, Graeme Hall, Labour’s programme for Britain’s exit from the EU and Brexit’s impact on businesses.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has entered an Energy Performance Contract with Veolia-Cynergin under which the latter will deliver a wide range of measures designed to lower carbon emissions and energy costs at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Alexandra Hospital, and Kidderminster Hospital.

BOC Healthcare says its complete Gas Facilities Management (GFM) design consultancy service will ensure that each hospital customer ‘receives the right system for its requirements, delivered by a provider it can trust’

The Crittall Group’s acquisition in midApril of Fendor, the north-east-based manufacturer of windows, doors, façades, and atria for acute and mental healthcare, custodial, and petrochemical applications, will bring significant benefits in broadening the markets for both companies’ products – geographically and sectorally, Stuart Judge, managing director of both the Crittall Group, and the resulting new windows and doors business, Crittall Fendor, has told HEJ.

There’s a potential vandal in each of us, especially when it comes to using public washrooms and toilets.

BSI, the business standards company, has revised the BS 8214 Code of practice for fire door assemblies, with the updated standard giving recommendations for the specification, installation, and maintenance, of timber-based fire doors.

Orders for a new Tomorrow’s Engineers careers booklet, From idea to career, which explores 12 areas of engineering, reached over 32,000 in the first fortnight following publication on 15 March 2017.

Competent or Authorised Persons working in ventilation can now take advantage of two new refresher training courses from Eastwood Park designed to update participants with the latest best practice.

A new supplement to HTM 0401, published last month, and titled Performance specification D 08: thermostatic mixing valves (healthcare premises), provides an update to the wellknown D 08 specification for thermostatic mixing valves, which was published in 1997.

Ensuring that patients get the highest quality care is becoming difficult for ‘overstretched nurses and carers’, argues Innova Care Concepts, whose new Interlude Newcare V3 hospital bed features ‘multiple easy-to-use functions to ease the busy schedules of healthcare professionals’.

Vernacare’s new Compact disposal unit is said to provide ‘quick, safe, and effective disposal’ of Vernacare singleuse containers and patient waste at the point of care.

PKL, a leading UK modular kitchen infrastructure provider, is taking on the distribution of the Garbage Guzzler, ‘a revolutionary waste digester that allows any hospital to reduce its costs and waste disposal needs’.

LocationManager, an online service that gives NHS Trusts and their suppliers ‘a simple, cost-effective, and efficient way to manage and access information about all locations across the NHS’, has been launched by GS1 UK to help drive adoption of GS1 standards for the third element of the DH-funded Scan4Safety programme, ‘places’