RECENT NEWS

MasterMover is keen to alert healthcare estates personnel to ‘the significant advantages’ its electric tugs can deliver within hospital environments.

Scientific Digital Imaging’s Synoptics Health Division has launched its ‘next generation’ ProReveal with advanced process validation analytics software – for detecting and analysing the amount of residual proteins on surgical instruments post- decontamination.

A new ‘smart road stud’ from New Zealand-based Solar Bright can warn drivers of potentially icy roads, and will soon be able to alert traffic management centres and maintenance depots of treacherous conditions.

Like light, colour, and temperature, sound can significantly impact on patient recovery rates in healthcare facilities; nevertheless, the importance of good acoustics is often underestimated.

The £16 million refurbishment of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary University Tower has seen 4,000 m2 of DLW Linoleum’s Marmorette flooring installed.

The Design Council has been funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to create a new online ‘Inclusive Design Hub’ for the built environment.

MTX has won the contract for a new SSCU (surgical special care unit) modular extension to the Lyme Building at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, adding an additional 12 critical care beds.

Howorth Air Technology has added a relocatable permanent or semi- permanent ‘isolation room’ to its portfolio – BioSphere – via which it says hospitals can safely contain HCAIs (healthcare-associated infections), and ‘provide absolute biological decontamination’ in just 24 hours.

BOC Healthcare, the UK’s largest medical gases business, has added MEC Medical oxygen and suction therapy devices to its portfolio of medical equipment for distribution across the UK and Ireland.

IHEEM and Eastwood Park will launch a new competency-based programme for Authorised Persons and Authorising Engineers.

Specialist in commercial glazing systems, Fendor, says it has gained a reputation for bringing innovative design to the annual Healthcare Estates event, ‘this year being no exception’.

With over a decade’s experience of working in partnership with the NHS, Eric Wright Group (EWG) says it ‘understands the importance of providing an integrated estates solution to meet the changing needs of the public sector’.

Spirax Sarco will field ‘an expert presence’, with a team of steam specialists available to offer advice on energy-related needs.

Rada, the ‘experts’ in commercial showering and washroom controls, has over 80 years’ experience in healthcare.

Expert in anti-ligature door, window, and load-release hardware fittings, Primera Life, is ‘delighted to be at Healthcare Estates again’ after a successful 2013 event.

Global water treatment and filtration provider, Envirogen Water Technologies, parent company of Environmental Water Systems, has significantly extended its consumables range.

Elliott has unveiled ‘a cost-effective, rentable healthcare building solution’.

Thirteen operating theatres – eight at Watford General Hospital, and five at St Albans City Hospital – have been upgraded by Starkstrom after the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust successfully bid for special funds from the Department of Health.

Fire alarm monitoring solutions specialist, Drax Technology, has launched a new Training Academy at its Letchworth headquarters.

Virgin Media Business is to supply community health provider, Sirona, with 4G mobile connectivity, in partnership with EE, to support the delivery of home healthcare to patients across the UK.