RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

The next generation of heat sanitisable water treatment systems has arrived. The new Thermapure™ from Elga Process Water combines integrated heat sanitisation and reverse osmosis technology that delivers high quality compliant water for decontamination.

The B4, the newest Wi-Fi staff badge from Ekahau, features an OLED text display and multiple buttons that allow users to receive text messages over Wi- Fi, and to acknowledge receipt or to initiate calls and alarms.

Steri-Spray unveiled at Healthcare Estates 2012 a ‘Design and Patent Registered’ seamless solid surface integrated plumbing system which it believes will reduce cross-infection risk, and simplify servicing.

Polyflor flooring has been specified and installed at two Sheffield healthcare facilities. Sheffield Central Clinic is benefitting from Polysafe Wood FX Acoustix PUR in Rustic Oak and Pearlazzo PUR in Lilac Bloom, and Mint Crisp installed throughout, while Sheffield Children’s Hospital has installed Polysafe Modena PUR in the Aventurine shade in its Accident and Emergency Ward, and chosen Forest FX Acoustix PUR for waiting rooms.

Recognising that many patients are being encouraged to exercise as part of their recovery plan while in hospital, Static Systems’ latest Fusion-IP ‘app’ allows patients to move around in safety by giving them the ability to quickly and easily summon help from staff who can accurately locate them in real time.

A document recently released by the Department of Health through the NHS Technology Adoption Centre (NTAC) is intended to be used by hospitals to support the business case for implementation of point-of-use (POU) filters in the UK.

Recognising that many patients these days are being encouraged to exercise as part of their recovery plan while in hospital, Static Systems says its latest Fusion-IP ‘app’ allows patients to move around the hospital in safety by giving them the capability to quickly and easily summon help from staff who can accurately locate them in real time.

Haigh Engineering’s Healthcare Team has returned from what the personnel involved dub ‘a very successful’ Healthcare Estates Conference in Manchester – the largest exhibition of its kind in the UK focusing on the design, build, maintenance, and management, of healthcare estates and facilities.

Douglas Delabie says its new Securitherm thermostatic single lever mixers ‘provide safety and comfort for patients and retirement home residents’, with the ‘ergonomic’ mixers featuring a single control to open the water flow and adjust the temperature.

Crown Decorating Centres is offering users 35 per cent off Crown Trade’s 5 Litre Steracryl Anti-Bacterial Scrubbable Matt paint if they buy the product before 31 October.

London’s new purpose-built University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre, which has five floors, each tailored to investigating and treating specific cancers, features Tarkett floorcoverings, including ‘some unique and rather special elements’.

Space heating and domestic hot water at the new East Riding Community Hospital will be supplied by a combination of biomass and gas-fired boilers from Hoval.

Wardray Premise, a specialist in the design, manufacture, and installation, of X-ray, gamma, neutron and RF shielding products, has recently installed a leadshielded window, incorporating switchable privacy glass, into a window for a new hybrid theatre facility at the London Clinic for Galliford Try.

Three Altro products have been selected for a healthcare showroom at the Central London premises of Flourish Healthcare, the healthcare offshoot of Tsunami-Axis, a commercial office environment designer.

Dr Sanaz Litkouhi, assistant professor and director of the Architecture and Urban Planning Department at the Payame Noor University, in Tehran, the author of a number of previous articles for HEJ on optimal design of healthcare facilities for children and adolescents (HEJ – November 2007, March 2008, and May 2010), describes how service users’ views were carefully gauged and taken into consideration in a project involving renovation of part of the Shahid Bahrami Children’s Hospital in Tehran.

In January 2012, three babies died from Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in Northern Ireland and the source was traced back to the hospital water supply.

Healthcare technology and IP communications specialist, The Wandsworth Group, and critical voice and data communications company, Airwave Healthcare, showed for the first time at Healthcare Estates 2012 a system they say seamlessly integrates the former’s IPiN nurse call system and the latter’s patient entertainment hospital televisions.

Gilgen Door Systems showcased its new swing door drive unit and Safeguard professional maintenance solutions at Healthcare Estates 2012.

According to Casey Wells, marketing manager at Trend Controls, and a regular exhibitor at Healthcare Estates, “Healthcare Estates 2012 was certainly a success for us. This event gives us a welcome opportunity to meet end users and healthcare professionals to discuss the requirements and challenges facing this marketplace”.

The centrepiece of a range of ‘premium performance’ fire detection and emergency lighting systems shown by Hochiki Europe was the live working demonstrations of the company’s latest ‘breakthrough’ – FIREscape+ – which integrates addressable fire detection and emergency lighting technology ‘to provide an intelligent wayfinding solution’.