RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

This presentation will explain how collaboration between the Lincolnshire Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT), design teams, and the contractor, culminated in an award-winning mental health rehabilitation facility in Lincoln.

Joe Forster, chairman of the Design in Mental Health Network (DIMHN), will look closely at the design of anti-ligature door and window fittings in the context of forthcoming changes to the Door & Hardware Federation’s technical specification for anti-ligature products – TS001.

GE and Bart’s Health NHS Trust will be describing an approach via which they are working together ‘to deliver a new and innovative approach to carbon and energy usage reduction, by looking not just at the latest technology, but also at the Trust’s most important resource – its people’.

Duncan Agnew, head of the Healthcare team at designer and manufacturer of the PowerStar voltage optimisation system, EMSc (UK), will use the company’s HEJ Product Showcase presentation to explain how voltage optimisation works, identify where it does and does not reduce electricity consumption, and ‘outline the many benefits of implementing the technology in the healthcare sector’.

“With a carbon footprint equivalent to 21 million tonnes of CO2, and shrinking budgets, few organisations face an environmental challenge like the NHS.

According to Dalkia, with the sector facing continuing pressure to reduce carbon emissions and footprint, NHS Trusts now have at their disposal a wide range of potential solutions that can substantially cut CO2 emissions from electricity, heat, and cooling systems.

Emergency lighting is a vital element of any life safety system, and plays a key role in guiding people to a safe location in the event of mains lighting failure.

C-TEC’s Quantec addressable call system is ‘playing a key role’ in safeguarding staff at a new Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit in Belfast.

Spirax Sarco is launching insulation jackets tailored for pipeline equipment, such as valves, steam traps, and flowmeters.

Building energy management system specialist, Trend Controls, describes its latest IQView touchscreen display, IQView8, as ‘a major breakthrough in making energy management as simple and accessible as possible’.

Construction Specialties says its new ‘dynamic, controllable, sun-shading product’, Solarmotion, can help reduce heat gain ‘by up to 85%’, reducing the need for air conditioning and electrical lighting, and maximising comfort and daylight for building occupants.

Specialist contractor, Prater, has won the contract to provide a complete external envelope for the New South Glasgow Acute Hospital (NSGH).

Patients in a new seven cubicle recovery suite at the Day Surgery Unit at the St Mary’s Hospital in Newport, on the Isle of Wight, are benefitting from an Airwave patient entertainment system incorporating wall-mounted Samsung Healthcare LCD HD televisions.

Spirax Sarco is adding more training courses to its schedule to meet ‘record demand’ for boiler operator training.

‘More energy-efficient steam systems’ are the promise of the new STS17.2 steam trapping station just launched by Spirax Sarco in an expansion of its Quick-Fit steam trap range.

Spirax Sarco says its TVA steam flowmeter is designed specifically for measuring steam flow, and can ‘help support healthcare facilities’ energy reduction targets’.

Hospital technology and wiring accessories specialist, The Wandsworth Group, has launched a range of blue sockets to comply with NHS Medical Electrical Installation Guidance Notes (MEIGaN).

Bushboard Washrooms says it has ‘evolved’ its ‘tried and trusted’ RPM system to deliver its most economical, well designed pre-plumbed system to date.

C-TEC has launched what it claims is ‘a revolutionary and highly cost-effective’ range of dementia care products for use with its popular Quantec addressable call system.

Designer, developer, and manufacturer of thermostatic mixing and temperature control valves, Horne Engineering, says that waterborne bacteria are ‘ubiquitous’, and argues that it is thus ‘arguably impossible’ to completely eradicate them from hospital water supplies.