Over the past year Apollo Fire Detectors has undertaken a thorough market research investigation into fire safety within the healthcare industry in the UK, led by head of Marketing, Irina Cruse, and her colleague, graduate project leader, Harry Buck.
A key aspect was travelling across the UK to visit different types of hospital site, equipped with a range of different fire detection systems, to experience and understand the challenges of operating and maintaining them first-hand. As they report, talking to fire safety experts, and making connections through IHEEM, has helped Apollo gain some valuable insights.
There are over 1,200 NHS hospitals across the UK, spread across 223 NHS Trusts, with their buildings and estate ranging considerably in age and complexity. Few hospital estates comprise mainly single standalone buildings; instead the sites are usually made up of a complicated infrastructure network that has grown and developed over a few decades. This in turn increases the complexity of the fire detection systems needed across many such estates. Among the challenges in managing and maintaining a fire detection system in healthcare premises, and especially across a size hospital estate, that we discovered during our visits to hospitals and Apollo’s wider experience, are:
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