RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

The new volume-controlled counter current range of EcoSave Water Softeners from Environmental Water Systems (UK) reportedly offers significant cost savings, and ‘reduced negative impact on the environment’, plus reliable, economical operation.

Germany’s largest geriatric facility – the Berlin Geriatrics Centre (Evangelisches Geriatriezentrum Berlin), – has specified antimicrobial copper door furniture throughout to augment its infection prevention procedures – the largestscale antimicrobial copper deployment in healthcare to date.

Contour Casings has developed a ‘unique’ low surface temperature radiator (LST) guard for Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, to protect service users from dangerously hot surfaces.

The ‘Jetvent’ system, recently deployed by industrial and ventilation cleaning specialist, System Hygienics, to clean the ductwork in the subterranean car park at Hinxton Hall, part of the Wellcome Trust’s Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire, was reportedly heralded ‘a revelation’ by the customer.

Members of the ‘Planet’ team from Qube Global Software say they had a successful HefmA 2012 show, and enjoyed meeting a wide variety of healthcare sector personnel.

ISS Facility Services Healthcare is to deliver soft FM services to the Fulham Road Collaborative, comprising three London NHS Trusts and the Institute of Cancer Research, under a contract worth £100 million.

Static Systems Group will showcase ‘exciting advances’ to its Fusion-IP nurse call system. Using ‘platform-independent’ technology, and ‘a major breakthrough in real-time location’ (RTLS), Fusion-IP is said to be ‘leading the market with its innovative healthcare communication applications (apps)’.

Mechline will show its Waste20 food waste digester, which it says can digest up to 180 kg of soft food waste in just 24 hours, ‘leaving nothing but grey water that is safe for the building’s drains’.

Services ‘old and new’, all aimed at providing estates and facilities departments with accurate building information, to be shown by Topscan, will include the company’s new Electronic Room Monitoring service.

Part of the Government Procurement Service (GPS) Framework for laundry and linen, Grosvenor Contracts claims to offer laundry buyers ‘greater choice and freedom’, having recently made significant investment by installing ‘the latest in high-tech laundry equipment and facilities’.

NIFES Consulting Group was formed 59 years ago to advise UK energy-users on improving efficiency. The company’s Low Carbon Projects & Solutions team offers an ‘expert end-toend consulting process’ to take clients from initial studies to fully commissioned projects.

Already providing energy services to 6,159 hospitals across 40 countries, and with 80 years’ experience in healthcare sector energy management, Dalkia claims to be ‘a market-leader for energy efficiency projects that provide savings on operational costs and reductions in CO2’.

“Why employ one energy manager when you can have all the advantages and expertise of the Low Carbon UK team?” So says the company, which will be launching its new Retained Energy Management / Advisory Service to NHS Clients at HefmA 2012, available through the Government Procurement Service Framework Agreement, ref. no. CM/AAC/09/5124.

Green & Kassab, which will launch two new services at HefmA 2012, says its speciality is working alongside NHS Trusts and their facilities management teams ‘to review, re-design, and implement change management strategies which deliver real service improvements and tangible financial savings’.

Catalyst Waste Solutions says its team of experienced ‘ex-NHS waste managers’ can help organisations ‘keen to reduce their waste, but not sure where to start’, by producing practical action plans and implementing change, as well as providing training, auditing, and procurement services.

Offering ‘a complete turnkey package, from design to installation’, Wandsworth Group claims to have been ‘at the forefront of communications technology within the healthcare sector for over 50 years’; its equipment has been installed in over 300 hospitals across the UK.

Haigh would like to thank all those who visited its stand at HefmA 2012, where the company exhibited the SOLO, and award-winning Panaway, pulp bedpan disposal systems from its Sluicemaster range.

Courtney-Thorne says the versatility of its CT-TOUCH nurse call touchscreen, running ’Call Manager 4.0’ software, is making it ‘a must-have’ throughout the healthcare sector, due to its instant user information and call tracking capabilities – all in one compact unit.

Patients within multi-bedded parts of the recently completed modular ward extension at Harefield Hospital can now enjoy their own personal television and radio thanks to Airwave Healthcare’s installation at the facility of one of its IPTV patient entertainment systems.

Visitors to the Health Estate Journal (note new telephone number: 01892 779999) and Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) stand will be able to learn more about how to register for a digitised copy of the magazine each month – a recent innovation, which also offers online advertisers the opportunity to direct site visitors back to their own website.