Interviews
MMC’s benefits especially clear in fast-track schemes
HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, interviewed David Hartley, MD of MTX – one of the UK’s leading exponents of healthcare MMC, at this year’s Healthcare Estates, discussing both some of MTX’s most notable recent MMC healthcare project successes, and why an increasing number of NHS clients now favour this form of construction.
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Embedding a fire safety culture and awareness across the NHS
HEJ’s editor, Jonathan Baillie, met up with Maz Daoud, Head of Fire Safety at NHS England, to talk through some of the key current fire safety-related issues for he and his team, and for the personnel charged with minimising fire risk, and ensuring compliance with regulations and guidance, at healthcare facilities across the NHS. A key priority, he stressed, is ensuring that all relevant staff are adequately trained, both in the correct preventative procedures and practices, and in what to do should a fire occur.
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Interview with IHEEM’s outgoing President, Alison Ryan
Alison reflected on a busy and interesting two years as the Institute’s first female President. Perhaps most notably, she has made a considerable impact in championing careers for women in engineering, and on the equality and diversity agenda, and has also undertaken valuable STEM work in schools and colleges to encourage young people into healthcare engineering and estate management careers when they leave school.
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Interview with IHEEM’s President Elect, Nigel Keery
At this year’s Healthcare Estates, Jonathan Baillie, caught up in Manchester with IHEEM’s new President, Nigel Keery OBE, who in his ‘day job’ is Head of Estates Operations at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
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Medical gas specialist’s renewed sustainability drive
HEJ Editor, Jonathan Baillie, met up at this year’s Healthcare Estates event in Manchester with Paul Owen of Beacon Medaes, the company’s Sustainable Solution Sales Manager, to discover more, and to hear about an exciting new addition to the company’s clinical product range.
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Valve technology and intelligent pipe routing help keep water safe and hygienic
At Healthcare Estates 2024 in Manchester, Kemper was particularly keen to talk to visitors about its Hygiene System KHS, which uses ‘innovative valve technology and intelligent pipe routing’ to maintain continuous water flow and prevent stagnation, and the resulting impairment of drinking water quality, and its Multi-Therm product – ‘a solution for wireless, digital hot water circulation systems’. HEJ’s editor, Jonathan Baillie, met with General Manager, Matt Camm, to find out more about these products, and other recent technology developments at a business first established in Germany in 1864.
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Increasingly complex power demands require a resilient supply
Today’s healthcare facilities have increasingly complex, and equally diverse, electrical power requirements, and indeed a reliable and continuous electrical supply is critical both to ensuring uninterrupted clinical activity, and to keeping plant and equipment running optimally. HEJ’s Editor, Jonathan Baillie, discusses with Graeme Tucker of Power Control
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