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Stainless steel WC now in a white finish

Stainless steel WC now in a white finish

British manufacturer, Pland Stainless, has introduced a new white powder coated version of its ‘popular’ Atlanta 2 back-to-wall WC pan.
  • Product News
  • / Sep 10, 2019

Portable Appliance Testing simplified

Martindale Electric’s new HPAT Series of portable appliance testers now includes the HPAT400 and updates to the company’s existing range, to enable both contractors and competent inhouse personnel to quickly and safely verify the electrical safety of all types of appliances.
  • Product News
  • / Sep 10, 2019
Floorcare expert’s new colour-coded brushes

Floorcare expert’s new colour-coded brushes

Global floorcare manufacturer and supplier, Truvox International, has extended its ‘popular and versatile’ Multiwash scrubber-dryer range with the launch of new coloured brushes
  • Product News
  • / Sep 10, 2019
Upgrade on ‘live’ nurse call system finished ahead of schedule

Upgrade on ‘live’ nurse call system finished ahead of schedule

Static Systems Group has completed a ‘live’ site-wide upgrade to the nurse call system at Queen’s Hospital in Burton for the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust in just over three years, rather than the anticipated 4-5 years. Queen’s Hospital, an acute 450-bedded hospital serving around 360,000 residents of Burton upon Trent and the surrounding areas, had over 40 existing nurse call systems, including conventionally wired Static Systems equipment in place for some 25 years. With much of the equipment becoming obsolete, maintenance costs rising, and equipment failure increasing, the Trust recognised the need for a complete system upgrade.
  • Product News
  • / Sep 09, 2019
Clearwater claims to have ‘world’s quickest’ on-site Legionella test

Clearwater claims to have ‘world’s quickest’ on-site Legionella test

Clearwater Technology has launched HC Rapid25, an on-site Legionella testing device that it says will detect Legionella ‘in just 25 minutes’, instead of the current ‘typical’ 10-12 days. The nationwide provider of water, air, and hygiene management confirms that the new technology will be used in all the regular water tank inspections and Legionella risk assessments it undertakes that include a water tank as part of the assessment.
  • Product News
  • / Aug 02, 2019
Children supported by beach-themed inclusive washroom

Children supported by beach-themed inclusive washroom

Armitage Shanks has worked with Royal Preston Hospital to create an inclusive new children’s washroom for the hospital’s paediatrics ward featuring a sunny beach theme, to put the children being cared for, and those around them, at ease.
  • Product News
  • / Jul 18, 2019
NHS Trusts ‘owed thousands’ in energy bill refunds

NHS Trusts ‘owed thousands’ in energy bill refunds

Inenco is urging organisations across the NHS to check whether they are being overcharged or paying ‘erroneous charges’ on their utility bills.
  • Product News
  • / Jul 04, 2019
Dramatic ceilings for Royal College’s new London HQ

Dramatic ceilings for Royal College’s new London HQ

The Royal College of Pathologists’ new £15 m headquarters in London features one of Hunter Douglas Architectural’s dramatic Luxalon ceilings, ‘adding a sense of drama’ to the both the exterior and interior of the ‘spectacular new space’. The ‘purpose-built, environmentally friendly’ new facility in Alie Street is an eight-storey, 4,500 m2 building designed by award-winning architects, Bennetts Associates. It marks the final step in the College’s move from a Grade I-listed building in St James’s to contemporary, purpose-built premises. The headquarters, shortlisted for the 2019 RIBA London Award, is described as ‘a flexible and environmentally efficient building’ that will enable the College to represent its growing membership, advance its research, and provide public education services and programming.
  • Product News
  • / Jun 28, 2019
Architects engaged in design of therapeutic headwall

Architects engaged in design of therapeutic headwall

Static Systems Group’s latest bedhead services trunking solution, Vistr Headwall, has been designed specifically to help create a therapeutic healthcare environment conducive to patient wellbeing and a speedy recovery.
  • Product News
  • / Jun 27, 2019

NHS Trusts could reduce energy costs by 15%, Inenco says

Energy consultancy, Inenco, is urging NHS Trusts to ‘re-think their approach’ to energy buying to reduce costs and mitigate against rising prices.
  • Product News
  • / Jun 20, 2019
Fulton’s VSRT steam boiler’s ‘world-first’ design

Fulton’s VSRT steam boiler’s ‘world-first’ design

Launched in 2018, Fulton’s VSRT steam boiler is described by the company as ‘unlike anything the industry has seen before’.
  • Product News
  • / Jun 12, 2019
Bringing dialysis to Irish communities

Bringing dialysis to Irish communities

Medstor has provided essential healthcare materials handling and management solutions for Ireland’s first purpose-built haemodialysis clinic, in County Wexford.
  • Product News
  • / Jun 10, 2019
Pressure-balancing mixer for healthcare

Pressure-balancing mixer for healthcare

Delabie has launched a new pressurebalancing mixer – available with 200 mm and 150 mm centres – which it says ‘is ideal’ for public areas in healthcare facilities, and provides a mechanical alternative to its successful Securitherm thermostatic mixer.
  • Product News
  • / Jun 10, 2019
Tuneable bedhead luminaire promotes comfort and healing

Tuneable bedhead luminaire promotes comfort and healing

A new single-piece low profile bedhead luminaire, Florence+, has just been launched by Whitecroft Lighting The company explained: “The newly designed luminaire comes off the back of years of healthcare sector experience. Florence+ is an elegant low-profile design bedhead luminaire for wall mounting in healthcare environments.”
  • Product News
  • / May 30, 2019
Acrovyn by Design brings art into wards at new RNOH Stanmore Building

Acrovyn by Design brings art into wards at new RNOH Stanmore Building

A new four-storey building at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore which includes a children’s / young people’s ward, two adult acute wards and a private ward, play areas with a children’s activity centre, and a 15 m high reception and waiting atrium, ‘combines the latest health technology with architectural design and contemporary art to create colourful, welcoming patient and staff spaces’.
  • Product News
  • / May 28, 2019

Wall-mounted water monitoring system

Water quality monitoring expert, Hevasure, has launched a new compact, wall-mounted version of what it claims is its ‘industry-leading’ water monitoring system, ‘providing easy installation in a wider variety of locations’. All hardware, including sensors and data acquisition system, is enclosed in a high quality, dust-proof steel casing. The new unit also includes optional UPS battery back-up, which can provide power for up to 48 hours if there is a loss of mains electricity.
  • Product News
  • / May 23, 2019

Mobile decontamination system’s wireless connectivity

Bioquell says its new Bioquell ProteQ mobile room bio-decontamination system offers ‘a cost-effective and high performance’ means of automatically decontaminating critical areas, including biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, GMP/GLP and bio-safety laboratories, animal facilities, and cleanrooms. The compact machine utilises the company’s 35% hydrogen peroxide vapour, with ‘a modular, upgradeable design for a more configurable pricing structure’. Developed as ‘the next generation’ of the company’s previous mobile room decontamination offering, the Bioquell Z-2, the Bioquell ProteQ incorporates powerful distribution technology for reduced cycle times, with more efficient use of Bioquell’s approved 35% hydrogen peroxide vapour, and less need for additional standalone distribution fans. It offers new wireless functionality which can network multiple units, improving set-up times, and ‘making it ideal for areas of any size’. For GMP applications or frequently decontaminated areas, the Bioquell ProteQ carries out an automated decontamination cycle to parameters defined during a documented gas cycle development. For non-GMP areas and emergency deployment, an updated algorithm delivers an automated 6-log decontamination cycle based on inputted room volume and monitored environmental conditions.
  • Product News
  • / May 20, 2019
Expona and Polysafe Arena make healthy addition to InHealth expansion

Expona and Polysafe Arena make healthy addition to InHealth expansion

Polyflor’s Expona Commercial and Polysafe Arena flooring ranges were recently chosen or use on a project involving the expansion of InHealth’s community endoscopy service in Oxfordshire, with the opening of an additional ‘state-of-the-art’ Community Health Clinic in Bicester.
  • Product News
  • / May 15, 2019
Legionella risk in hot and cold water systems

Legionella risk in hot and cold water systems

In hot water supplies, the use of use of unvented cylinders in hot water supplies is very common, and expansion tanks are often the preferred method to take up thermal expansion. One potential problem that can arise, however, is when the expansion tank is sited incorrectly, resulting in a ‘deadleg’, and a possible microbial problem.
  • Product News
  • / May 13, 2019
Viega adds high temperature models to Megapress range

Viega adds high temperature models to Megapress range

Viega has extended what it dubs its ‘market-leading’ Megapress S range with press connections for pipe sizes between 3/8 and 2 inch diameter. Part of the ‘industry-first’ Megapress range of press connections for thick-walled steel tube, Megapress S features a FKM sealing element, and has been engineered for high temperature applications up to 140 °C and pressures up to 16 bar.
  • Product News
  • / May 13, 2019

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