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Trust prepares for winter pressures with mobile theatre installation

A Foundation Trust is preparing for winter pressures with the addition of a mobile theatre unit which will help it increase its operational capacity by an estimated 120 procedures a month. Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) took delivery of the Vanguard Healthcare Solutions mobile theatre at Goole and District Hospital in early November, and it became fully operational later that month. It is helping the Trust carry out an extra 30 operations a week, providing services for patients across Scunthorpe, Grimsby, and Goole, and will be used for urology, gynaecology, and general surgery.
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  • / Dec 11, 2018

Medusa luminaire’s energy-saving benefits

‘Medusa’, the ‘latest generation of LED streetlight’ from Ecolighting, is designed to enable public sector users to benefit from ‘huge cost savings’, and to ‘make a substantial difference’ to energy bills. ‘Robust and weatherproof to IP65, easy to maintain, lightweight, and with a stylish aluminium body with adjustable pole mounting’, it is ‘ideal for use in streets, security, car parks, and building exteriors’, designed with a Philips advanced xitanium driver, and Samsung or Cree LEDs, and comes with a NEMA five-pin plug for telematics such as Telensa or similar open protocol.
  • Product News
  • / Dec 04, 2018
Stay in control with GEZE Cockpit

Stay in control with GEZE Cockpit

A ‘smart hub’ that lets users ‘take control of door, window and safety systems’ will be launched by GEZE UK at this month’s Smart Buildings Show, which being held from 7-8 November 2018 at the Barbican in London
  • Product News
  • / Nov 21, 2018
Aearators help users meet targets

Aearators help users meet targets

Bristan has announced what it says is ‘an important change’ to the design of its existing range of basin mixer taps, with the addition of Neoperl 5 L/min aerators.
  • Product News
  • / Nov 21, 2018
Comelit takes care of door entry at Omagh complex

Comelit takes care of door entry at Omagh complex

Comelit Group has worked with fire and security specialist, Building Protection Systems, at the Omagh Hospital & Primary Care Complex, to achieve its objectives for access control to interface with intercoms located at external building entrances, internal ward entrances, and department entrances.
  • Product News
  • / Nov 21, 2018
Plasterboard for X-ray environments

Plasterboard for X-ray environments

With lead recently classified as a Substance of Very High Concern by the EU under REACH regulations, Knauf says its Safeboard is ‘the ideal lead-free plasterboard for X-ray environments’.
  • Product News
  • / Oct 10, 2018
Pseudalert method published as ISO worldwide standard

Pseudalert method published as ISO worldwide standard

IDEXX Laboratories Inc, the rapid microbiological testing specialist for water, says its IDEXX Pseudalert method has been published as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) worldwide standard, 16266-2, for the 24-hour detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in water.
  • Product News
  • / Oct 10, 2018
A cutting-edge solution to ‘reverberation woes’

A cutting-edge solution to ‘reverberation woes’

AG, a supplier of hard landscaping, building, and structural pre-cast products, describes its Alphacrete Acoustic as ‘a cutting-edge, soundabsorbing masonry block with outstanding room and building acoustic performance’.
  • Product News
  • / Oct 10, 2018
Enclosures save time and simplify maintenance

Enclosures save time and simplify maintenance

Static Systems Group has introduced ‘new and improved’ enclosures for its Aspire SmartSync ‘world-class wireless’ nurse call solution.
  • Product News
  • / Oct 10, 2018
Specialist equipment package for Hallamshire hospital

Specialist equipment package for Hallamshire hospital

Medical Air Technology (MAT) has recently completed the total refurbishment of four ultraclean operating theatres at Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital, working with Kier and NG Bailey. The company was specified for the project by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, having worked at Royal Hallamshire successfully a few years previously delivering the total turnkey refurbishment of theatres 3 and 4.
  • Product News
  • / Oct 08, 2018

Codelocks’ CL4520 ‘smart’ lock makes debut

Codelocks’ new CL4520 ‘smart lock’, combining convenience, flexibility, and a powerful mortice lock with a double cylinder, is said to be ‘ideal for buildings and environments that experience high traffic’. The lock features a euro profile mortice sash lock with deadbolt and latchbolt safety function, and can be set with or without a key-operated deadbolt feature, allowing estates and facilities managers to restrict or allow access by code. Codelocks says that accidental lock-ins are avoided with the provision of an inside lever handle to retract the deadbolt and latchbolt simultaneously.
  • Product News
  • / Oct 01, 2018

Maximise safety, efficiency and productivity, with wireless steam trap monitoring

Process, energy, and maintenance managers looking to maximise safety, efficiency, and productivity, are being urged ‘to take a proactive approach to plant management’ by including wireless steam trap monitoring within their proactive maintenance regime. Spirax Sparco said: “Wireless steam trap monitoring systems, such as Spirax Total Acoustic Performance Solutions (STAPS), complement an existing steam trap programme by providing real-time data on trap performance and condition – a sure-fire way to lower costs, boost productivity, and use resource more strategically.”
  • Product News
  • / Sep 25, 2018
Water outlet flushing simplified

Water outlet flushing simplified

L8guard is ‘a simple web-based compliance solution chosen by NHS Trusts countrywide to record their lowuse water outlet flushing’.
  • Product News
  • / Sep 12, 2018
Proud to be ‘Made in Britain’

Proud to be ‘Made in Britain’

Washroom and water efficiency specialist, Cistermiser Keraflo, has joined industry body ‘Made in Britain’.
  • Product News
  • / Sep 12, 2018
I-Gienic sheet supports hygiene protection

I-Gienic sheet supports hygiene protection

Intastop has launched a ‘hygienic sheet’ which it says will provide ‘a hygienic, impact-resistant cladding’ for walls and doors.
  • Product News
  • / Sep 12, 2018

A heavyweight challenge successfully met

Patient care equipment supplier, Innova Care Concepts, has been awarded a £205,000 contract to supply and install 47 overhead hoist systems to The Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, Wales. This marks the third successful NHS contract bid for Innova in the past year, after it secured deals to provide hoisting systems to the Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Birmingham and Balfour Hospital in Orkney.
  • Product News
  • / Jul 27, 2018

Perfect grounding for new cancer centre

Visqueen – part of RPC bpi recycled products – has provided a waterproofing and gas protection solution to the new Rutherford Cancer Centre North East in Northumberland, ensuring that it meets all local planning conditions. Working with a contractor in Stockton, Visqueen selected its new Ultimate GeoSeal, together with waterstops and sealers, to offer ‘complete protection from the ingress of ground gases’, as well as acting as a waterproof membrane. Due to the site conditions, the building had to be piled with a suspended floor system.
  • Product News
  • / Jul 26, 2018

LED lighting upgrade brings 70 per cent energy savings to Dublin hospital

Over 400 Ledvance Panel LED 600 luminaires have been installed to meet the high lighting demands throughout Dublin’s Connolly Hospital and, the supplier says, ‘provide a 70% energy saving’. The Connolly Hospital’s Electrical Team turned to Ledvance to replace over 400 existing fluorescent fixtures in the hospital’s A&E Department, main corridors, wards, reception, and ancillary hospital areas.
  • Product News
  • / Jul 24, 2018

Eight-week completion for Glenfield scheme

When University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust required an upgrade and refurbishment of two of its theatre suites at Glenfield Hospital, MTX provided a ‘fast-track and high quality upgrade solution at a competitive cost’.
  • Product News
  • / Jun 11, 2018
Turnkey theatre projects drive ‘business boom’

Turnkey theatre projects drive ‘business boom’

Demand for high quality, cost-effective turnkey delivery of operating theatre upgrades and new-build projects is driving ‘a business boom’ for Bender UK, the company says.
  • Product News
  • / Jun 11, 2018

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