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Simulated theatres should improve performance Simulated theatres should improve performance
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwick (UHCW) has transformed its teaching and training facilities with Brandon Medical’s Symposia. The interactive system includes eight simulated operating theatres, each supplied with Brandon Medical’s camera systems, monitors and the latest LED operating theatre lights.

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HFC launches innovative online TV channel
The Healthcare Facilities Consortium recently launched a new resource for healthcare professionals working in Facilities Management.
Patients get smoother ride
Aintree Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has purchased 11 Easy Rider Remote remote control bed/trolley driving devices from Dutch manufacturer RRB Netherlands with special adaptors that enable them to fit onto “around 95%” of the Trust’s “7-8” different types of existing beds and trolleys.
High standard of papers for Harrogate event
The organisers of October’s Healthcare Estates Conference and Exhibition say “a recordbreaking number of high quality papers” were submitted, offering attendees “specialised content and relevant information which will be of major benefit in creating and maintaining clean, safe and sustainable environments for care”.
Escalation ward’s dual role
A new 22-bedded infection control escalation ward, designed by LSI Architects, has opened at James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, as part of the James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s ongoing campaign to improve the patient environment and enhance infection prevention and control.
Guide to new Eurocodes
BSI British Standards has published a “companion guide” to the structural Eurocodes”, due to come into force in March 2010, which will set out European standards for designing and building civil engineering works.
Chloride acquires distributor
Chloride, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and services, has completed the acquisition of one of its distributors, Malcolm Power Systems,

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Sustainability spotlighted Sustainability spotlighted
A technical seminar on sustainability staged by IHEEM’s Yorkshire branch was among the first showcasing opportunities for the Bradford Royal Infirmary’s new Sovereign Lecture Theatre (pictured).

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Congratulations
IHEEM would like to congratulate the following, who had Institute grades awarded recently:
Challenging times, but ‘unprecedented opportunities’
High-level estates personnel from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland discussed some of the key challenges facing healthcare estates teams at a seminar, “The top five issues from a national perspective”, staged before the 2009 IHEEM AGM in London. Jonathan Baillie reports.
IHEEM Annual General Meeting 2009
The President, Mr Rob Smith, presided. There were 21 members present. The meeting opened with the President welcoming the members to the meeting and calling on the CEO to read the Notice of the AGM.
Platforms for sharing expertise
IHEEM is to create a series of Technology Platforms which will act as a focus group on technology matters, create policy on technology issues, advise the Institute’s Council and guide members on significant issues arising, and manage technical responses and activities.
Wide-ranging conference to tackle everyday issues
With this year’s Healthcare Estates conference and exhibition in Harrogate now under six months away, the organisers say the event is all set to be the biggest staged to date, with the wide-ranging conference programme set to tackle many of the everyday operational issues, as well as the wider strategic topics, exercising the minds of health estates professionals up and down the land.
Sustainability set to head 2009 conference agenda
The continuing focus on the sustainable aspects of healthcare building design and operation will a major talking point at this year’s Healthcare Estates conference and exhibition, with expert personnel from the NHS’s recently established Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) set to be on hand to give delegates free advice and information.
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Smarter ways shown to banish the bugs
Prototypes of new designs of 11 items of hospital furniture and equipment, ranging from a “21st Century” commode to an “intelligent mattress” that changes colour on becoming “compromised by body fluids”,

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