Quick and easy-to-clean patient chair

Quick and easy-to-clean patient chair

Will Beck, the High Wycombe-based furniture manufacturer, has launched an attractively finished patient chair designed specifically for healthcare applications which incorporates antimicrobial fabric, has features that make it quick and easy to clean, and is manufactured using traditional joinery methods to maximise its longevity.

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Sliding aluminium window for anti-ligature applications

Sliding aluminium window for anti-ligature applications

Façade specialists, Wicona, and glazing manufacturer, Fendor, have jointly launched a sliding aluminium window system specifically designed for anti-ligature applications.
‘Cutting-edge’ research facility

‘Cutting-edge’ research facility

The Leadbitter Group has completed the £29 million second phase of the Institute of Life Science and the £22 m Centre for NanoHealth at Swansea University.
Rigel passes the test in South Africa

Rigel passes the test in South Africa

Rigel Medical analysers have been specified for a South African project designed to improve standards of medical device safety and performance inspection.
• In another sphere
• Room timetabling issues resolved
• ISS’s £100 m London contract win
• Connectivity with latest mobile devices
• Food waste disposal – simplified
• Saving money and optimising space use

Features

Teamwork triumphs after second ‘quake

Teamwork triumphs after second ‘quake

Health Estate Journal’s November 2010 issue included a fascinating personal account by Alan Bavis, facilities and engineering manager at New Zealand’s Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB), of how he and his team kept essential hospital services going in Christchurch after an earthquake measuring 7.1 magnitude on the Richter Scale hit the country’s South Island on 4 September that year.
Addressing problems set by Pseudomonas

Addressing problems set by Pseudomonas

IHEEM’s recent seminar in Birmingham, ‘Dirty Little Secrets’, not only focused on the key priorities for keeping surgical instruments clean and sterile (HEJ – April 2012), but also featured a timely presentation by Dr Jimmy Walker, principal investigator, Decontamination, HPA Microbiology Services, at the Health Protection Agency, in which the highly experienced microbiologist shared his expertise on what appears to be becoming an increasingly prevalent problem for healthcare estates and engineering personnel.
Changing the face of London’s healthcare

Changing the face of London’s healthcare

Europe’s newest hospital, and the UK’s largest ever PPP-funded and operated healthcare facility – the £650 million Royal London in Whitechapel – opened its doors on 1 March – following years of hard work and planning which has seen doctors and nurses involved throughout, working under the guidance of a 30-strong Barts and the London NHS Trust New Hospitals Programme team to create an optimal healing environment.
Strong foundations or shifting sands?

Strong foundations or shifting sands?

The 15th Annual Conference and Exhibition to be hosted by the Health Estates and Facilities Management Association (HefmA), this year themed ‘Strong Foundations or Shifting Sands?’, takes places later this month (24-25 May) in Telforda
• Partitioning: splitting fact from fiction
• Transforming care through technology
• Maximising value from PFI contracts
• Giving acoustics a fairer hearing
• Water consumption cut and money saved
• Secure, safe, and sensitive solutions

Product Spotlight

Emergency mobile water solutions
Emergency mobile water solutions

Elga Process Water has extended its range of Aquamove mobile water solutions for the healthcare market, with a new mobile compliant reverse osmosis water solution for endoscopy and sterile services decontamination applications available via its Biopure and Osiris product ranges.

Medical gas system’s ‘increased functionality’
Medical gas system’s ‘increased functionality’

BeaconMedæs has launched ‘the second generation’ (Mk 2 variants) of its Medipoint medical gas alarms. The Medipoint 26 is specifically designed to monitor departmental gas pressure of up to six gases under ‘normal’, ‘high pressure’, and ‘low pressure’, conditions.

Even more in control
Even more in control

Trend Control Systems has launched the first two models in ‘a new generation’ of building energy management system (BEMS) controllers. Although small, the Trend IQ411 (pictured) and IQ412 reportedly offer ‘advanced capabilities not found on any other building services controller, even much larger ones’.

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Integrated digital theatres for pioneering Kent hospital

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Integrated digital theatres for pioneering Kent hospital
Brandon Medical’s fully integrated digital operating theatres have been installed at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Kent, England’s first ‘100 per cent single-bed’ acute healthcare facility.

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HefmA National Conference 2012
Telford International Centre
23 - 25 May 2012
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Leeds andLondon
17 July Leeds, 19 July London
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Healthcare Estates 2012
Manchester Central
9 - 10 October 2012
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