RECENT NEWS

Asckey Data Services has signed an agreement with BESA (the Building Engineering Services Association) to become the first Approved Provider of the SFG20 planned and preventative maintenance standard.

Cancer patients at Tameside Hospital are benefiting from a major redevelopment of their local Macmillan Unit, with arts consultancy, Willis Newson, having brought in artist, Chris Tipping, to create a welcoming, healing environment, with integrated artworks providing a connection with the beautiful local Tameside landscapes.

The Christie’s new Proton Beam Therapy Centre in Manchester, due to treat its first patients next summer as the UK’s first NHS high-energy proton beam facility (see also pages 45-49), will be equipped with Varian’s ProBeam proton therapy system.

Medical and nursing staff in Cumberland Infirmary’s Accident and Emergency departments are using a time-saving, hygienic new system of organising and disposing of medical items when assessing and treating patients.

Harland Simon says East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) is ‘experiencing multiple cost and efficiency improvements’ using its RFiD Discovery system to track over 5,000 medical devices, including 1,000 beds.

Millions of feminine hygiene products, nappies, and other hygiene waste currently sent to landfill by hospitals, GPs’ surgeries, care homes, and other healthcare organisations, can now be recycled to produce clean energy, according to PHS Group.

Brandon Medical has begun the transition to adopt the newly established ‘Scan4Safety’ initiative, spearheaded by the Department of Health.

Rigel Medical has supplied a global charity that delivers healthcare services worldwide on board the world’s largest private hospital ship with a variety of biomedical test equipment, including a Multi-Flow Infusion analyser, electrical safety analysers, patient simulators, an electrosurgical analyser, and ventilation analysers.

BOC Healthcare says it offers hospitals and other care facilities ‘a total turnkey solution to the complex issue of creating safer, more secure medical gas cylinder storage’.

A ‘thinking tap’ like its Ultra is especially useful for hospitals, medical practices, and industry, says Conti + UK

A hybrid fan coil unit developed by Airedale International Air Conditioning from a concept by Arup associate director, Roger Olsen (pictured), is claimed to address ‘the biggest complaints in comfort cooling’, including energy efficiency, draughts and dead spots, space claim of secondary ductwork, unit footprint, cluttered ceiling void services, and ‘restrictive access for maintenance and installation’.

A new PVDF insulated aluminium rainscreen with integral high-performance composite windows, together with a freestanding structure, have created a ‘garden’ in front of the building to successfully transform the Queen’s Façade on Upper Maudlin Street Bristol at Bristol Royal Infirmary which, from the architect’s perspective, creates ‘interstitial public spaces that suggest a new relationship between the hospital and its urban context’.

C-TEC, which claims to be UK’s largest independent manufacturer of quality life safety electronic equipment.

Slamming doors, damage to walls and furniture, and trapped fingers, could be in the past with the introduction of GEZE’s ActiveStop – a new control mechanism for internal swing doors

Schneider Electric, the global energy management specialist, has opened a new Customer Experience Centre in Telford to showcase its ‘market-leading, digitised, and connected technology, systems, and equipment

BAM Construction has been selected as preferred bidder for the construction of an £18 m unit to care for very sick and premature babies at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire – the Sub-Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Centre (SuRNICC).

Brandon Medical has supplied ‘state-of-the-art’ medical control and power products to a new Endoscopy Unit at Nuneaton’s George Eliot Hospital.

Pineapple Contracts has extended its contract furniture range with four new products.

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust has teamed with Medirest, part of Compass Group UK & Ireland, to streamline and improve its outsourced soft FM services across its hospital and community sites.

BOGE has added to its its popular EO range of oil-free scroll compressors by adding two new compact models – the EO11D and EO16 – characterised by ‘whisper-quiet’ low sound pressure levels and oil-free Class 0 (ISO 8573-1)-compliant compression.