RECENT PRODUCT NEWS
Solutions for the CSSD
LTE Service Centre employs a nationwide service team ‘fully qualified to meet the demands of the latest HTM/CFPP’ for porous load sterilisers, washer-disinfectors, ultrasonic irrigators/baths and endoscope storage cabinets.
Proven in the real world
The Kingsway Group is a specialist manufacturer of glazed panels, hardware, and doorsets for the mental healthcare sector.
‘Holistic approach’ on offer
At this year’s Healthcare Estates, Trend Control Systems invites visitors to ‘challenge their expectations’ of building energy management systems (BEMS).
‘Step change’ energy reductions
‘Guaranteed, step-change reductions’ in energy consumption to large consumers, such as hospitals, universities, and retailers, are available from Cynergin, the energy service company (ESCo) says.
Bespoke reduced ligature windows
Now a regular exhibitor at Healthcare Estates, Polar has been further developing its range of reduced ligature windows with a new PVC-U option, the Tweed
Fully integrated solutions
Starkstrom, as part of the Progility Group, offers S-equiP – ‘a turnkey solution to meet infrastructure and clinical needs for critical areas in the hospital’.
Complete sluice room solutions
DDC Dolphin say it is ‘dedicated to excellence and innovation in sluice room and dirty utility room design, equipment manufacture, installation, testing, and servicing’.
‘Most advanced system yet’
Aid Call, which claims to have ‘led the way’ in the manufacture of wireless nurse call technology for the past 35 years, offers ‘a wide range of products and bespoke solutions to meet the specific demands and requirements of the hospital environment’.
Seeing the bigger picture
Achieving ‘good visibility’ of physical ‘assets’ across a sizeable healthcare estate can often be challenging, but is imperative to balance availability and efficiency.
Nurse call innovation driving hospital efficiency
As the primary means of communication between hospital staff and patients, nurse call systems are central to the functioning of all healthcare facilities.
Improving patient flow
With nurse call now part of the IP infrastructure, manufacturer, Austco, says that, ‘as the final leg’ to the hospital bedside or nursing staff, ‘future-proofed’ nurse call systems like its Tacera Pulse can be ‘the catalyst to improving patient flow’
Looking to a more ‘mobile’ future at Norwich facility
Wandsworth Healthcare partnered with the Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust in ‘an innovative installation’ of IPiN, a fully IP nurse call system complete ‘with mobile integrations’.
Hospital integrates nurse call and VoIP
A new communications system in the Jubilee Building at Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital – which houses southwest England’s first all-single bedded hospital accommodation – has won praise from user, the Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
Personal security ‘app’
Stanley Guard is a new personal security ‘app’ from Stanley Security designed to help protect staff or other individuals who may be at risk and do not carry an on-site alarm mobile device.
Courting success
C-TEC’s Quantec addressable call system has been installed at Abbey Court Independent Hospital, a purpose-built facility in Warrington for people with dementia and other mental health needs.
Excellent feedback ‘four years on’
Wireless nurse call specialist, CourtneyThorne, has installed its 08 system at Medway Maritime Hospital’s 20-room pre-occupation care unit (POCU) in Gillingham, Kent, bringing to 10 the number of wards utilising the system at the hospital (pictured).
HTM-recommended colours used
The Medicare HTM series nurse call system has, Medicare Systems explains, been designed to be very easy to use, and to ‘withstand the rigours of the care home and hospital market’.
Rapid assistance in case of attack
UK staff security specialist, Atus Systems, is set to add to its portfolio late this year with the launch of the Smart Badge, which it says ‘serves as an effective and indispensable extension of the smartphone’.
In tune with circadian rhythms
Now available from Hampshire-based designer and manufacturer of ‘smart LED lighting solutions’, PhotonStar LED Group, is HalcyonPRO, ‘an intelligent, wireless, automated energy-saving and circadian lighting solution’.
Designed for ‘years of carefree operation’
Dräger Medical says its Polaris 100/200 surgical light heads offer ‘everything users need for reliable operating room illumination’, being ‘equally suited to minor procedure and dedicated endoscopy room applications’.
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