Canute move should open up wide client base

Canute move should open up wide client base

Privately-owned logistics provider, The Canute Group, has expanded its medical services division with a move to a larger facility in Wokingham.

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Hove hospital features Brian Eno’s works

Hove hospital features Brian Eno’s works

The Montefiore Hospital, a stylish recently completed conversion of a former late 19th century-built furniture depository in Hove, East Sussex (HEJ – April 2013), is reportedly the world’s first hospital to incorporate the works of Brian Eno.
Colourful options with Calypso

Colourful options with Calypso

Global flooring and finishing brand, Gerflor, has released a new decorative wallcovering range, Mural Calypso.
Solar water heating for Liverpool health centre

Solar water heating for Liverpool health centre

Andrews Water Heaters has supplied a solar thermal water heating system for domestic hot water for the new Speke Neighbourhood Health Centre in Liverpool.
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What can be done to reduce false alarms?

What can be done to reduce false alarms?

Although (the Department for Communities and Local Government’s ‘Fire statistics’ reveal) the number of such incidents has fallen every year since 2006/07, UK fire and rescue services still attended over 312,400 ‘false fire alarms,’ i.e. instances where, on arriving at a site, they found no fire, in 2011/12.
Identifying ways to cut energy costs

Identifying ways to cut energy costs

Few industry sectors have energy demands quite like healthcare. By definition, many buildings involved in treating the sick and injured need to be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Copper disinfection ban causes storm

Copper disinfection ban causes storm

Since 1 February this year, under the EU’s Biocidal Products Directive, it has been illegal to sell or use water treatment systems that use elemental copper, a practice employed historically by a significant number of UK healthcare facilities to combat Legionella.
Nova Scotia facility ‘bigger and greener’

Nova Scotia facility ‘bigger and greener’

Krista Wood, director of public relations for Colchester East Hants Health Authority in Canada’s Nova Scotia, describes enthusiastically a new 124-bed health centre that opened late last year, which not only has the potential to conserve 44 per cent more energy than a ‘traditional’ hospital, but is also better equipped, and almost a third bigger, than the facility it replaces.
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• Unlocking potential for energy reduction
• Enhancing care at the new Calgary campus
• Nova Scotia facility ‘bigger and greener’
• Managing pipeline systems: key roles

Product Spotlight

New medical gas manifold ‘fast and easy to install’
New medical gas manifold ‘fast and easy to install’

BeaconMedaes has developed a new Emergency Reserve Manifold (ERM) incorporating the primary manifold header, which it claims ‘has the highest specification on the market’.

ELGA Process Water introduces fast water system monitoring tool
ELGA Process Water introduces fast water system monitoring tool

ELGA Process Water has introduced a new monitoring tool to help in microbiological control of water systems. ‘Bactiquant-water’ is a simple-to-operate test system that gives a rapid indication of total viable bacteria count – a test which normally takes two or three days – in under an hour.

Helping specifiers meet tomorrow’s environmental targets today
Helping specifiers meet tomorrow’s environmental targets today

Wilo’s new Wilo-Stratos GIGA, just launched in the UK, is said to be the first high efficiency glanded pump – and is targeted specifically at the building services and industry sectors.

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‘IMI Pod’ features Wandsworth technology

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‘IMI Pod’ features Wandsworth technology
As a healthcare technology expert, and one of the ‘pioneers’ of IP-based nurse call systems, Wandsworth Group says it was ‘the natural choice’ as the nurse call provider for the innovative IMI Pod – a new concept in healthcare interiors designed and built by IMI (Integrated Medical Interiors).

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