Haigh Engineering’s Healthcare Team has returned from what the personnel involved dub ‘a very successful’ Healthcare Estates Conference in Manchester – the largest exhibition of its kind in the UK focusing on the design, build, maintenance, and management, of healthcare estates and facilities.
Exhibiting the company’s Panaway and SOLO waste disposal solutions, Healthcare Division sales manager, Nick Dale and his team used the event to catch up with existing clients and contacts, and forge new relationships with prospective customers.
He said: “We would like to extend our thanks to all those who visited our stand at Healthcare Estates 2012. Meeting with current, and potential new customers, together with other industry professionals, we are able to share knowledge, while gaining a deeper understanding of trends and pressures facing the industry.”
Haigh says it is one of the leading suppliers of Sluicemaster bedpan macerators to PFI hospital projects in the UK, and ‘understands customers’ need for expert advice, technical support, and great service back-up’. The company said: “With outstanding sustainability credentials, and expertise in cost-efficient water and energy usage, we have a range of products to suit every hospital.”
Haigh says its machines deliver:
• Reduced infection levels.
• Significant environmental and running cost benefits.
• Time savings for staff.
Used in hospitals throughout the UK and worldwide, the company’s Panaway delivers ‘proven, wide-ranging benefits’, including:
• Disposal of up to four items in 85 seconds, with ‘touch-free opening’.
• Just 16 litres of water used per cycle ‘compared with 24 litres with many other machines’; users can reportedly save over 86,000 litres of water per ward year.
• Easy to use and reliable, with up to a six-year warranty available.
The SOLO, meanwhile, is said to be ‘reliable, easy to use, and compact’. Designed for single-bed wards and other low usage areas, it disposes of bedpans, urine bottles, and other pulp items into the standard drainage system, ‘using only cold water and a small amount of electricity’.
Key features include:
• Single item disposal in under 60 seconds.
• Patients benefit from single-use bedpans.
• ‘Proven’ in NHS infection control.
Haigh’s service offering includes:
• Free site surveys.
• Expert advice for installation.
• Cost efficiency forecasting.
• On-site training.
• Servicing of all makes of machine.
• Advice on pulp products.
“The potential benefits of using our pulp bedpan macerators and harnessing our expertise and experience include reduced cross-infection; lower energy and utility bills; increased patient comfort, and enhanced increased cost efficiency,” the company added.
