RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

eXitfinder is the latest addition to Fireco’s System X, the “smart” communication system that automatically signals a fire alarm condition to all the company’s linked X products, including Dorgard X and Deafgard X.

A Gradus carpet said to be both “exceptionally hardwearing” and “sustainable” has been installed throughout Birmingham’s new Finch Road Health Centre, helping to provide a welcoming, attractive patient and staff environment.

VtV Solutions, a “specialist in ventilation to validation”, claims that not only are many healthcare facilities’ ultra-clean ventilation systems (UCVs) not regularly, or properly, serviced, but that, rather than being replaced due to failure to meet the latest standards, existing units up to 15 years old can often be effectively and economically upgraded to give years’ more service.

Staff on the burns unit at Whiston Hospital, part of St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust, which “pioneered” the use of cleaning hand gel for ward visitors 11 years ago, have taken their infection prevention strategy a further step forward by using Vernaclean’s new Indicator tape to audit their cleaning procedures.

JG Speedfit’s new Network Controlled Underfloor Heating System “differs from “conventional underfloor systems” in that the electrical components are “networked” together using computer network cable.

Ascom Wireless Solutions and the Wandsworth Group have signed a distribution agreement that will see Wandsworth offer Ascom’s range of healthcare-oriented paging, IP DECT and WiFi communication products alongside its own nurse call and bedside computing systems.

West Midlands-based ECO-Logic UK has supplied a programmable water management system for the i-House, a traditional West Bromwich Victorian terraced house refurbished using intelligent technology and “accessfocused building design” to pioneer technologies for both sustainable and assisted living in an existing home for the first time in the UK.

The Max 4 therm system from Royalle Underfloor Heating Supplies is said to be “the thinnest, strongest and lightest underfloor heating system currently available”.

Verifying the inservice accuracy of electrical medical safety analysers is said to be quick and easy with the IEC 60601 Checkbox now available from Rigel Medical.

St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London has specified Leaderflush Shapland Plasform Unique doorsets for its new oncology unit.

London’s Cromwell Hospital has installed a Siemens Axiom Artis dMP for fluoroscopy and angiography procedures.

Staff at North West Wales NHS Trust can now instantly access key information on a wide range of estates issues following the deployment of SQL Core 5 and Purchase Order software from Gramms across the Trust’s three main operating centres.

While time flow taps are used increasingly in commercial and public buildings, both for water and energy savings and to address growing concerns about possible cross-contamination, the hand pressure required to operate them can present difficulties for the very young or old.

Barnsley Hospital patients can rest assured that their crockery will be properly washed and disinfected with the recent installation of 32 Miele Professional G7859 dishwashers across all the hospital’s wards.

Armstrong has extended its MBS integrated heating solutions range.

Now available from CK Consumables – part of City & Kent Cleaning – is a dispenser box into which visitors to healthcare facilities can quickly place their feet on entering for them to be quickly encapsulated in a pair of plastic overshoes which should contain any dirt bugs or bacteria within the shoes for the visit’s duration.

Besam is installing thirty automatic door systems for Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon as part of a £2.5 million ongoing refurbishment of six wards.

Hand hygiene specialist Gojo’s new TFX touch-free dispensing system can be used with all Gojo non-aerosol, foam soap and sanitiser products, and offers a completely contact-free method of dispensing, helping to minimise the spread of bacteria and reduce points of contamination.

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Avery Dennison Corporation’s Printer System Division to deploy one of its Tervia blood tracking systems across all eight of its sites by June.

Data acquisition and temperature management system manufacturer Anville Instruments says its new Series 825 thermal validation interface with EaziVal SE software is aimed at hospital estate managers, steriliser equipment manufacturers and pharmaceutical industry personnel.