RECENT NEWS

Leeds-based Brandon Medical has once again teamed up with community interest company, Medical Aid International, which is helping to set up a new children’s surgical unit in the district of Mbarara in Uganda.

UK designer and manufacturer of protection products, Intastop, is now the exclusive UK supplier of wall, corner, door protection, and handrail products designed for healthcare use from USbased global manufacturer, Inpro.

Wandsworth Healthcare is providing Spire Healthcare with one of its ‘advanced’ IP nurse call systems – IPiN Evolution, for the private hospital group’s new hospital in West Didsbury, South Manchester, which opened last month.

The Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester is to be the UK’s first hospital to trial new tracking technology to manage its beds, patients, staff, and equipment more efficiently, with the installation of over 4,000 infra-red sensors from US supplier, TeleTracking Technologies, above hospital beds and doorways.

With the risk that earth (grounding) leakages of electrical currents in both new and older electrical devices could cause injury, or even the death of those working close to the the defective equipment, Finnish company, PPO-Elektroniikka, says its MEV Isolation Monitoring System enables healthcare facilities to ‘constantly, safely, and securely’ monitor their electrical systems.

Conlon Construction has begun a 65-week project to build a new £40 m, two-storey private hospital in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

Sika has launched a Major Projects Team, bringing together expertise from across its waterproofing, concrete, sealing and bonding, flooring, refurbishment, and roofing businesses ‘to offer a holistic approach to supporting a project, from design through to completion’.

A £130 m investment to ‘kick-start’ the upgrade of radiotherapy equipment (which is used to treat around 4 in 10 of all NHS cancer patients), and to ‘transform cancer treatment’ across England, will see older ‘linac’ radiotherapy equipment used by hospitals countrywide upgraded or replaced over the next two years.

The KIMS Hospital near Maidstone, an existing Brandon Medical customer, has again chosen the company to provide state-of-the-art medical equipment to further enhance its operating theatres.

As part of an ongoing relationship with Spire Healthcare, Medical Air Technology (MAT) has recently refurbished and upgraded an existing operating theatre at the Spire Murrayfield Hospital in Edinburgh.

BOC Healthcare says its ‘total turnkey gas facilities management solution’ ensures that hospital liquid oxygen supply systems are always installed correctly, are fully compliant, and ‘operate with optimum efficiency’.

A partnership between Essentia Trading Ltd – the commercial arm of Essentia, Mott MacDonald, and professional services firm, EY, has seen a collaborative agreement signed to support the development of emerging healthcare requirements in Nanjing, the capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu province.

Vernacare – whose single-use human waste management system is reportedly used by 96% of NHS Trusts, and in healthcare facilities in 48 countries – has agreed a five-year supply deal with Manipal, one of Asia’s largest healthcare management groups.

The Barts Heart Centre in London, one of Europe’s largest specialist cardiovascular complexes, is now treating over 200 patients a day under one roof for the first time.

A new high voltage (HV) electrical training facility has been equipped with specialist test equipment from Seaward to ensure the highest standards of technical tuition and learning.

DELABIE, the European market leader for water controls and sanitary fittings in the public and commercial sector, has modelled its core products to meet the requirements of BIM technology.

Thermometry expert, TME, which exhibited for the second year running at last month’s Healthcare Estates exhibition, says its now ‘top-selling’ digital thermometer for Legionella applications, the MM2008 Legionella Thermometer, was developed ‘following valuable feedback on the problems experienced at the sharp end of water safety management’ from risk assessors and engineers attending the 2015 show.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has described as ‘brilliant’ the service provided to it by Devon Medical Equipment as part of a CT scanner replacement programme.

A new Healthcare Centre of Excellence at the company’s Miskin site, near Cardiff, recently formally opened by Wales’s First Minister, The Rt Hon Carwyn Jones AM, provides global precision engineering company, Renishaw, with a facility both for the manufacture of custom medical devices, and education and training for the life sciences community.

ENGIE has been awarded a contract to carry out a full refurbishment of the Leeds Generating Station Complex (GSC), jointly owned by the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.