http://www.healthestatejournal.com/rss.aspxEssential news for health engineers and estate managers.(c) 2012, Step Communications Ltd. All rights reserved.Step Communications, the publishers of Health Estate Journal are delighted to announce the re-launch of www.healthestatejournal.com http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9335Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:45:54 GMTO2 Health has launched in the UK a new telehealth service, ‘Side by Side’, following a successful trial with NHS Western Isles in Scotland, which demonstrated improved clinician productivity, a 30% reduction in travel costs, and fewer appointment cancellations. A secure software solution, Side by Side enables clinicians to use their office computers to link up electronically and conduct “personal and effective remote patient-clinician consultations”. It incorporates video, audio, and chat functionality, plus a digital whiteboard for on-the-spot diagrams and annotations.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9281Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:47:06 GMTAs part of its ongoing relationship with the Northern Skills Institute (NSI) at Hexham General Hospital, OR Networks, now part of Karl Storz Endoscopy UK, has equipped a suite of training rooms with equipment from its OR1 digital video teaching range. The specially designed ORTV system includes cameras, feeds for endoscopic stacks, audio systems, microphones, and display systems, and serves a dual purpose: running two skills laboratories for hands-on laparoscopic training, and creating a simulated environment for ‘SimMan’, a 75kg ‘plastic patient’ .http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9279Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:47:29 GMTIvan Peredruk, a newly appointed overseas member of the Institute, writes: “I am currently employed as a senior architect with international company KEO, and, since 2010, have been based in Doha, Qatar, where I have been employed, on site, on the construction of the new Sidra Medical Research Centre.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9221Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:23:46 GMTThe President, Paul Kingsmore, presided. There were 28 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. http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9220Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:21:39 GMTJohn Constable, IHEEM President from 1981-83, has died, aged 92. Born in September 1919 in Lancashire, his family moved to Dover, where he attended Dover Grammar School.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9219Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:18:40 GMTIHEEM’s Council has agreed that the Institute should continue to have a Chief Executive Officer to lead the organisation, and has now started the recruitment process.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9218Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:17:42 GMTThe Institute has issued a ‘Call for proposals’ (see also ‘flyer’ within this issue) for this year’s IHEEM Healthcare Estates event, taking place at Manchester Central from 9-10 October 2012. This follows an email on the subject last month.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9217Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:16:46 GMTIHEEM will hold technical seminars on decontamination, infection and pest control, and water quality, over the next few months, including one in Birmingham next month (there is still time to book).http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9216Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:13:10 GMTAs IHEEM members will see from the report of the Institute’s 2011 AGM (see page 10), with effect from the beginning of this month, there will be a change to the timescales within which annual subscriptions should be paid.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9215Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:05:00 GMTA grand total of over 2,600 visitors, exhibitor guests, personnel, and delegates, attended November’s Healthcare Estates 2011 exhibition and conference, continuing the increases in attendance seen since the move to Manchester, and representing the highest attendance in the event’s history.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9214Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:03:08 GMTWardray Premise has supplied bespoke shielded workstations for a new £1.4 million resuscitation unit at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South West London.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9211Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:57:57 GMTTraining centre, Eastwood Park, says it is already receiving considerable interest from managers of sterile services departments in one of its most recent new work-based learning initiatives – an Edexcelaccredited BTEC Certificate in the decontamination of reusable medical instruments.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9210Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:56:51 GMTLeaderflush Shapland doorsets have been specified for Doncaster Royal Infirmary’s new Women’s & Children’s Hospital.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9209Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:54:48 GMTDelegate places are still available for this year’s IFHE 22nd Annual Congress, to be held from 13-17 April on board the Norwegian coastal steamer, the Hurtigruten MS Midnatsol, as it journeys south down Norway’s scenic west coast.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9207Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:50:16 GMTNHS Protect, which incorporates some functions of the former NHS Security Management Service (NHS SMS), and provides policy and operational guidance on management of security within the NHS in England. http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9206Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:48:11 GMTGirbau UK has added enhanced LOGI PRO control to its ‘popular’ 6 Series washer range to offer ‘even greater operational flexibility and lower consumption of energy and water’ for commercial on-premise laundry applications including hospitals and care homes.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9205Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:46:35 GMTIn the introduction to the OR Networks-supplied article, Paddington hospital has ‘world first’ in AV in the November 2011 issue of HEJ. .http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9204Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:44:12 GMTBAM Construction in the North West is to deliver new facilities for Aintree Hospital in Liverpool.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9203Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:43:06 GMTManufacturer and supplier of float valves, Keraflo, has launched an electronic tank management system that it says provides, via one integrated ‘package’ for the first time, a simple way to monitor water level and temperature in cold water storage tanks.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9202Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:39:42 GMTRoyal Philips Electronics has opened a dedicated research facility at its Eindhoven-based Research Laboratories which will develop ‘healing environment concepts’ that ‘harness intelligent technology’ to accelerate and improve treatment outcomes, while simultaneously reducing the stress and anxiety associated with hospitalisation.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9201Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:34:17 GMTCreating comfortable surroundings for patients and their visitors is an important part of designing healthcare spaces, emphasises LG Hausys, designer and manufacturer of solid surfacing material, HI-MACS. http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9167Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:39:09 GMTIndependent ice and snow clearance company, Nationwide Gritting Services (NGS), says its has been keeping roads, car parks, and pedestrian walkways clear of ice and snow at hospitals and healthcare complexes for many years, ‘offering a guaranteed service, no matter how severe the winter weather’.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9166Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:57:10 GMTAccording to Stuart Davies, of Hochiki Europe, treating a fire detection system as a ‘fit and forget’ part of a building’s infrastructure can have disastrous consequences. He explains the key part that regular maintenance of such systems plays in ensuring correct operation, and avoiding unwanted alarms.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9165Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:53:37 GMTOne of the most recent work-based learning initiatives introduced by Eastwood Park is the development of a Certificate in the decontamination of reusable medical instruments. http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9163Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:43:35 GMTMike Beever, head of PFI, commercial, and contract planning, at the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was recently selected as the winner of a free IHEEM seminar place as one of those who provided valuable information to the Institute by completing a questionnaire, incorporated into the “carrier sheet” of September’s HEJ, seeking readers’ views on future seminar topics and locations.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9057Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:32:59 GMTKenneth John Eatwell, a member of the Institute for 48 years, and one of the original subscribers to the formation of the Institute of Hospital Engineers in the 1960s, has died, aged 90. His career started in Swindon, where he was an apprentice fitter-turner with the Great Western Railway Company.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9056Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:30:18 GMTTo further assist prospective members when applying to join IHEEM, the Institute has launched an online application form for individual membership which supplements the online affiliate application forms already available.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9055Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:29:08 GMTIHEEM President, and director of NHS Estates & Facilities Scotland, Paul Kingsmore, opened proceedings by welcoming a capacity audience of delegates who had travelled the length and breadth of the country to listen to presentations from industry leaders.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9054Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:27:56 GMTSmartGlass International, the global manufacturer of electronically switchable glass, has joined IHEEM as a Company Affiliate Member.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=9053Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:26:20 GMT