RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Doncaster-based Intastop – a leading manufacturer of door and wall protection products – will showcase a wide range of anti-ligature solutions at the 'Design in Mental Health' exhibition, which is being held at the National Motorcycle Museum, near Solihull, from 12-14 May this year.

Bristan has continued its concerted focus on the commercial sector with the launch of what are claimed to be the market’s softest touch timed flow taps to date.

Feel Better Sooner (FBS) Furniture, which has manufactured and installed mental health furniture for high, medium, and low secure units UKwide for many years, invites show visitors to ‘come and look at and touch’ its products.

A special emphasis on anti-barricade systems, anti-ligature ironmongery, and vision panels, will be the focus on the Kingsway Group stand.

For 25 years P4 has designed and manufactured products that provide emergency lighting to mental health premises in the event of power failure.

Anti-Ligature Shop (ALS) dubs itself ‘a true supplier’ to the mental health and custodial sectors, ‘with a reputation for innovation and quality’, and claims to be ‘the only supplier of specialist anti-ligature products under all one roof’.

ATB Secure will show its ‘unique’ Horizontal Slider and an Automated Opening Window – part of its Taurus Max range – designed specifically to meet mental health sector specifiers’ needs.

Solk, a family-run contract furniture business established for over 60 years, with its own three-acre site in Leeds, specialises in supplying furniture into ‘challenging’, and mental healthcare facilities, and is a preferred supplier to the NHS, local authorities, and large organisations.

Thorlux Lighting, a British-owned company that has manufactured luminaires in the West Midlands for 77 years, says while the key ‘historical’ requirement for mental healthcare lighting has been to provide vandalresistant, anti-ligature luminaires.

Recognised as ‘a leading provider of staff safety and protection systems’, Guardian Staff Safety Systems says it has become ‘the preferred choice of several Government departments’.

Launched at last year’s show by Safehinge, which is again exhibiting, was a ‘revolutionary, safe door system’, Symphony, said to ‘resolve the conflict between Building Regulations requirements for a fire door to be selfclosing, and NHS Trusts’ need to eliminate ligature points by using a transom door closer fitted in the frame head’.

Britplas, well known for its Safevent anti-ligature window, and a major contributor to the Design in Mental Health Network, will showcase its new Safesee door. The company said:

Introducing art into healthcare can help create therapeutic environments and promote wellbeing, says Bristol-based independent arts consultancy, Willis Newson, which adds:

A wide range of anti-ligature solutions will be shown by door and wall protection product manufacturer, Intastop.

A furniture collection designed and developed specifically for ‘demanding environments across the mental health sector’ will be shown by Knightsbridge Furniture.

High performance flooring from Flowcrete UK – installed at a new Bristol hospital facility by Polydeck Resins – has secured a top industry award.

Polyflor’s leading smooth vinyl range, Pearlazzo PUR, has been installed in the new Cyberknife Radiosurgery facility at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, one of only six such facilities in the UK.

Danfloor has supplied 3,000 m2 of its Equinox Tones carpet range for use in locations ranging from corridors to bedrooms, to Hallmark Care Homes’ Alexandra Grange 55-bed care home in Wokingham.

Following trials of a ‘shock-absorbent’ Tarkett flooring system commonly used in sports halls, Portsmouth’s Queen Alexandra Hospital is hoping to reduce trips and falls in its dementia wards by installing the material.

Described as ‘one of the UK’s most flexible single-sided entrance mats’, Nuway Connect is part of Forbo Flooring Systems’ comprehensive entrance systems flooring portfolio, and ‘gives peace of mind in stopping a high proportion of dirt and moisture from entering a building’.