RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

As part of an ‘ongoing, flourishing relationship’ with Spire Healthcare, Howorth Air Technology recently refurbished and upgraded three operating theatres at the Spire Manchester Hospital, as part of a larger project by construction, facilities management, and engineering services company, CFES.

Refurbishment and upgrading of operating theatres in both NHS and private hospitals is proving a significant growth area for Bender UK, which offers ‘a totally integrated turnkey service’.

Brandon Medical’s new Quasar eLite operating theatre has been designed and built in the UK ‘by a consortium of some of Britain’s finest engineers and infection control specialists’.

Tetra Consulting is an independent compliance risk management company providing Legionella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and asbestos services to NHS hospitals and healthcare Trusts.

Airwave Healthcare will show its latest bedside and in-room patient entertainment ‘for today’s connected hospital’, exhibiting its latest ‘White Healthcare’ television, ‘smart TV’ options, and touchscreens.

Using best practice gained from energy management on over 6,000 healthcare facilities worldwide, Dalkia says it can implement site-wide carbon management strategies that deliver ‘significant cost and carbon reductions’.

Static Systems Group will be inviting Hefma attendees to ‘shape the future’ by commenting on its latest products.

The features and benefits of its ‘cutting edge’ fire detection and emergency lighting solutions will be shown by Hochiki Europe. On show will be a static example of the company’s HFP fire detection system, ‘a complete solution for all fire detection requirements’.

Parking enforcement represents ‘difficult territory’ for healthcare estates teams, according to Workflow Dynamics.

LED lighting specialist, Exled, will show its Stadia 120W high-powered LED floodlight, ‘ideal for areas requiring a high level of illumination’.

Bristan has launched ‘the market’s softest touch timed-flow taps to date’. ‘Ideal’ for healthcare applications, the new soft-touch push-button range requires ‘only a very light touch’ to operate, making the taps ‘especially suitable for use where very young, old, or less able people, are accommodated’.

Ponte Giulio, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of disabled products for bathrooms, has opened a warehouse and offices in Hove, East Sussex, ‘after over 30 successful years in Europe’.

The Water Management Society promises that its next conference, ‘Fifty Shades of Water Management’, on 16 and 17 June, will be ‘an informative and entertaining two-day event, with presentations and workshops throughout’.

Rada, the ‘pioneer of digital washroom technology’, is supplying its Rada Sense clinical washroom controls to Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool.

By 2050, the average age of European citizens will increase from 39 to 49, water controls and sanitary equipment specialist, Delabie, points out. The company adds:

Tarn-Pure says its system ‘employs well-proven technology through a unique copper-silver ionisation process which releases validated, efficacious quantities of copper and silver ions into the water storage/distribution circuit, providing environmentally friendly, cost-effective protection against Legionella’.

Sensazone, from ‘water management experts’, Cistermiser, is a system designed ‘as a simple yet effective way of controlling the water supply and lowering energy usage, while maintaining safe, hygienic washroom environments’.

Pegler Yorkshire’s new Tectite thermostatic mixing valve series ‘combines the latest in metal push-fit technology, with the ultimate protection against hot water scalding and thermal shock’.

A new range of assisted wetrooms suitable for care settings has been launched by Gainsborough Specialist Bathing, complementing its selection of baths and recently launched shower modules.

The New South Glasgow Hospitals Project, currently under construction by Brookfield Multiplex for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, will give Glasgow one of the UK’s most advanced adult acute services, and will be Scotland’s biggest critical care complex – a 1,109 bed adult acute hospital adjoining a 256-bed children’s hospital.