RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

As part of the Trust’s drive to give the service training opportunities in Trust premises so that fire and rescue personnel understand how a large acute hospital will manage a fire incident, the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has recently been undertaking exercises with West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (WYFRS) – one of the goals being to evaluate whether established operational fire procedures used in other buildings would be effective in hospitals.

Immerse Training describes itself as ‘a new and forward-looking, dynamic training company established and run by experts in the water treatment field’.

The Fire Protection Association (FPA) says it offers ‘a range of highly practical and vocationally relevant courses to suit those with a responsibility for fire safety in healthcare premises’.

OCS has gained accreditation as a BIFM Recognised Centre, enabling the international facilities management provider to self-deliver BIFM qualifications.

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

UV Light Technology says its new, high intensity UV 400W hand lamp will kill viruses or bacteria, including Ebola, ‘in seconds’ without the need for chemicals.

Independent benchmarking specialist, iClean, which has worked with a number of high profile NHS Trusts and providers, and helps clients, cleaning contractors, and in-house cleaning teams, achieve and demonstrate efficiency and best value for money through independent benchmarking, has announced that it has now benchmarked in excess of 200 separate providers across ‘5,000 plus’ commercial client sites to a service value of £250 million. According to the company’s last 10 mixed provision reviews, i-Clean identifies, on average, 27.5% in efficiency improvements.

A conference aimed at educating medical device manufacturing companies on changes that have been made to a key sterilisation standard – ISO 11135:2014 – will be held at the Heart of England Conference Centre in Coventry on 4 March this year.

Bristan’s new Opac bar shower – ‘designed to aid commercial users in the complex task of ensuring optimum water temperature and infection control’ – features inbuilt TMV 3 control, and an automatic thermostatic shut-off, in the event of hot or cold water supply failure.

The recently opened Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre in Harrogate – a newly-built cancer support and information centre (HEJ – January 2015) – features antimicrobial copper touch surfaces.

Howorth’s Biotechnology Division provides ‘a range of equipment that addresses everincreasing market demands for effective, safe, state-of-the-art patient protection systems’.

With soiled laundry in healthcare facilities potentially a source of infection spread, and, the company claims, ‘many nosocomial infections traceable back to poor hygiene standards in the processing of contaminated laundry’, Miele Professional’s PW 6163, PW 6243, and PW 6323 barrier machines reportedly ‘provide the ideal solution’ for processing soiled and potentially infected laundry.

Installation of ‘one of the world’s most advanced’ laminar clean airflow canopies has helped an operating theatre at a multi-million pound healthcare facility ‘meet the highest industry standards for infection control’.

A guide to using variable-speed drives and motors in healthcare premises to help reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint is now available from ABB.

Hamworthy Heating has developed a new CIBSE-accredited CPD presentation examining how to save energy in commercial heating and hot water projects, and ‘the best way to quantify those savings from the whole-life perspective’.

ABEC says its new Focus Energy ‘package’ takes a fresh approach to standard BEMS planned maintenance ‘using a combination of remote and on-site control of building management systems’.

A recently opened, ‘newly revamped’ £3.1 m energy centre at Cheltenham General Hospital designed and installed by Vital Energi, which will operate and maintain it under a guaranteed Energy Performance Contract for the next 18 years, will save Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over £10 million, and reduce carbon emissions by over 32,000 tonnes over the contact term.

Recognising the need to reduce its lighting energy spend and maintain good illumination in its external car parking areas, Spire Healthcare invited Future Energy Solutions (FES) to undertake a comprehensive feasibility study to scope the objectives and determine the optimal LED lighting and commercial solution.

Finning Power Systems (Finning) is to deliver the new 11 kV emergency electrical services standby generator system for Guy’s Hospital in London.

The Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Directives for water heaters and hot water storage tanks come into force on September 26 this year, and will ensure that only the most efficient water heaters are being manufactured, specified, sold, and installed, says Jonathan Tedstone, category manager for Andrews Water Heaters (pictured).