RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to provide outstanding customer service, Welch Allyn will be working in partnership with EBME. The new arrangement will ensure a higher level of customer service support by handling warranty replacements and repairs for Welch Allyn thermometers and aneroid blood pressure monitors with an even faster in-country return to service.

SirrusStone by A&J Gummers is a solid surface material, made from a blend of natural materials and pigments, which is easy to maintain and extremely durable. For a sleek, seamless surface, SirrusStone bathing panels offer a neat, easy to fit and hygienic solution for showering areas.

The Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham has recently taken delivery of five MasterMover ride-on machines. The existing hand tugs at the facility that were over 20 years old were coming to the end of their working life and needed to be replaced with a machine that was versatile enough to tow a variety of items inside a busy single site teaching hospital, which would address manual handling concerns, reduce noise, would not damage the extensive miles of vinyl covered corridor and add to the modernisation of the portering services.

Research shows that 85% of dirt that enters a building is carried in on the shoes of the occupants and visitors. To combat this problem, Mannington has introduced Ruffian and Ruffian Ridge – two new co-ordinating designs of entrance matting, which can be used together or separately as an effective barrier.

A new range of “Little Giants” has been specifically designed and developed by Miele for use in laundries that may lack the space or sufficient quantities of laundry to require large commercial machines. The 5.5 kg or 6.5 kg load capacity in the Little Giants, together with a host of innovative features, create more options for the user and make these machines the ideal choice for many small healthcare establishments such as residential or nursing homes, and hospitals.

Rigel Medical has recently updated a number of new features in its multipurpose electro medical safety analyser, the Rigel 277 Plus.

The Otex laundry disinfection system is set to be evaluated by the NHS, as a result of the product being launched to a key meeting of NHS officials and nurses responsible for hospital cleanliness and infection control.

Brandon Medical has launched a new operating theatre UPS system – the BXi Series. This new product range has been designed and developed specifically for operating theatres and offers a highly flexible and reliable method of ensuring theatre power supplies do not fail.

The Tormax three-wing revolving door, installed at the main entrance to University Hospital Aintree, provides a robust physical barrier from the external elements and reduces the risk of vandalism when the door is locked.

Panvelle Stretch anti-bacterial and flame retardant upholstery fabric from Panaz has won a Product Approval Award from the British Contract Furnishing Association (BCFA).

Bid-Builder, the unique whole-life costing methodology for major construction and refurbishment projects, won Product of the Year 2006 at the Construction Computing Awards.

Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced two new X-class ultrasound platforms, the ACUSON X500 and ACUSON X300.

CMS Acoustic Solutions has launched the CMS High Impact Mat, a commercial and industrial floor covering designed to withstand heavy footfall or mechanical traffic.

The new Rada technical catalogue has a number of new features.

UK-based Static Systems Group, together with Vidac and Accsys PTY, based in Gaborone, Botswana, has completed shipment in a programme to supply nurse call communication systems and bedhead services trunking for over 1,500 beds in five hospitals in Botswana.

Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust has acquired an MT3/240 to transport medical records around the hospital. Previously, records were pushed manually around the site on a four-wheeled trolley weighing approximately 340 kg.

Cistermiser, a UK water usage management company, has launched the Infrared Urinal Flush Control Valve.

TripTrack is being marketed as a new way to prevent people tripping in lifts.

Samsung Techwin has introduced a day/night camera.

The new IK-1000ME extreme low light colour camera gives full colour, virtually noiseless images at TV scan rates in almost complete darkness, the supplier, Firstsight Vision, claims.