RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

With over 20 years’ experience designing and making furniture for challenging environments, Tough Furniture says: “We find it very encouraging to see the rise in quality of all provision, particularly in mental health, and the recognition of the significance of the living environment as a real part of the therapeutic process.

Guardian Staff Safety Systems manufactures call alarms and staff attack systems for service-users and staff that ‘exceed NHS and Home Office requirements’, and are widely used by NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers UK-wide.

Pineapple Contracts has supplied ‘safe, secure, and stylish’ furniture for nearly 40 years. During this time its product range has evolved to include a host of safety features to protect staff as well as users.

Award-winning healthcare solutions provider, Teal, has unveiled a new ‘innovative multi-use chair’ created by international designer, Ben Grafton, which it will show at the DIMH 2015 exhibition.

This spring, Primera will be bringing the Life-Line concept to Solihull.

‘Delighted’ to be participating in DiMH 2015, P4 said: “As a leading UK authority in self-testing emergency lighting, our continuity of product, and innovative solutions, help ensure sustainable compliance with British and European emergency lighting regulations.”

On show from Intastop will be its latest product, the SECURAHinge (pictured), a full-length continuous geared hinge that provides improved safety for applications in healthcare, psychiatric, and secure accommodation environments, designed particularly for the anti-ligature market.

The Anti-Ligature Shop claims to be the only supplier of specialist antiligature products ‘all under one roof’.

The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) is the UK’s largest specialist Institute for the healthcare estates sector.

At this year’s show, provider of alarm and communication systems for healthcare environments, Static Systems, will offer the chance to discuss its Anti-vandal Manual Call Point Mounting Box (pictured), improved following feedback from the 2014 DIMH event and subsequent discussions with specialist groups.

The Water Management Society (WMSoc) has launched a new training course for 2015, which covers the background to, causes of, and control aspects of, Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Where hot water is required over several floors for handwashing or showering, centralised systems may struggle to deliver water quickly and efficiently to more remote points of use.

Plumbing and heating solutions specialist, Pegler Yorkshire, has launched a website which it says ‘offers much more than general product or technical data – it centres around the individual requirements of specifiers and installers, and assists them in finding solutions for prevailing industry issues’.

Mira Showers has enhanced its popular Advance electric shower range with what it says is the market’s only shower to offer wireless pairing to a waste water pump.

Earlier this year, Brookfield Multiplex handed over the new South Glasgow Hospitals project to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Reliance Water Controls’ (RWC) new Ausimix Compact range of thermostatic mixing valves are described as ‘high performance TMVs with TMV2 and TMV3 approval, made from nickel-plated DZR brass, with high quality internal fittings for durability and longevity’.

A new bath filler designed to further aid users ‘in the complex task of ensuring optimum water temperature and infection control’ has been launched by Bristan.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is commonly found in water pipes, and is generally tolerated by healthy people, but poses particular risks for or vulnerable individuals who may be immunocompromised within hospitals, such as the elderly, cancer patients, people in burns units, and infants.

Cistermiser, experts in water-efficient washroom systems, including infrared taps and flush control products, will exhibit on stand 1403 at The Facilities Show, at ExCel London, from 16-18 June this year.

Franke Sissons, which supplies modern washroom systems, has headed ‘a hardhitting parliamentary discussion’ in Westminster to outline ‘the lack of surveillance for genuine CE marking required by UK law’ on products fitted in commercial buildings.