RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Fire Detectors’ Discovery fire products are providing life and property protection at the ‘new’ Royal London Hospital. The main contractor on the £1.1 billion PFI project, Skanska, selected Static Systems Group to design, supply, and install, the hospital’s highly complex fire system.

Sanco UK, an independent, Herefordshire-based call system provider that provides and supports call systems nationwide, says it can service and repair many different nurse call systems and handsets, and is a strong believer in ‘never throwing anything away’.

Fusion-IP Aspire, a new radio-based nurse call system from Static Systems Group (SSG), is fully compatible with other Static Systems equipment, and adds a wireless option to the evergrowing Fusion-IP range of nurse call solutions.

Wandsworth Group has installed its IPiN Ethernet-based nurse call system into a live environment within the Cardiac Ward, Accident & Emergency Unit, and Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) of South Tyneside District Hospital as part of a rolling upgrade.

Aid Call says wireless nurse call systems such as those it supplies ‘provide all the functionality and reliability of a hard-wired system, but with greater flexibility, and more powerful features and functionality’.

Medicare says its HTM series Nurse Call system has been designed both to be very easy to use, and to withstand the rigours of the hospital and care home market.

Abbey Court Independent Hospital, a purpose-built facility in Cheshire for people with dementia and other mental health needs, has installed C-TEC’s Quantec addressable call system.

Washroom solution experts, Franke Washroom Systems, also known as Franke Sissons, has added a comprehensive range of grab rail and Doc M product packs to its extensive line-up of commercial washroom products.

The organisers of Healthcare Estates 2013, Step Exhibitions, say this year’s attendance ‘continued the increases seen since the move to Manchester’, and included 401 attendees at the conference; and a record number at the Awards Dinner, of 435.

A combination of tighter budgets, increasing volumes of environmental legislation, and greater financial accountability, mean healthcare estate managers UK-wide are under growing pressure to save energy and money.

Bender UK says it ‘scored a huge hit’ at the Healthcare Estates 2013 conference and exhibition, with delegates and visitors crowding onto its stand to learn more about ATICS - the power changeover solution designed to the Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Level 2 standard (BS EN61508).

Visitors to the Starkstrom stand at this year’s Healthcare Estates exhibition were able to experience the company’s latest VisionOR integrated high definition video solution, including ‘cutting edge optical networks’.

St George’s Hospital in Tooting is reportedly saving £45,000 per year after upgrading the heating and hot water systems in one of its plant rooms to Spirax EasiHeat plate heat exchanger packages.

For Static Systems, this year’s Healthcare Estates event provided an opportunity to highlight its Fusion-IP ‘family’ of nurse call solutions.

Schneider Electric says its new StruxureWare for Healthcare software suite provides organisations with ‘a comprehensive view into their integrated healthcare facility’, enabling them to improve energy savings, infrastructure efficiency, patient safety, ‘and more’.

Airflow Developments says its new Duplexvent Multi Line range is the first fully customisable range of indoor and outdoor commercial MVHR (mechanical ventilation with heat recovery) units to achieve Passive House standards.

The UK’s healthcare sector spends more than £400 million every year on energy, although a large proportion of this energy is often wasted.

In a concerted effort to take the complexity out of choosing the most appropriate nurse call system, leading healthcare communication specialist, Static Systems Group, has categorised its Fusion-IP product range into three distinct sub-brands, simultaneously adding a wireless system for good measure.

Clever and innovative new design touches and cost-effective construction feature strongly in the development of Ventura, Static Systems’ latest bedhead services trunking system, shown for the first time at this month’s Healthcare Estates exhibition in Manchester.

Regina Kennedy, an architect and urbanist with a Master’s degree in healthcare facility planning and design, who is currently a programme manager at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the state of Qatar’s ‘premier’ non-profit healthcare provider, examines how, during the design process, the right principles can be applied to ensure that hospitals and other healthcare facilities ‘work’ for all user groups.