RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

BOC Healthcare’s Medical Engineering Services (MES) division was established to assist users of medical gases in complying with legislation and codes of practice.

Schneider Electric will showcase its extensive range of solutions for the healthcare sector. Experts from the global energy management specialist will be on hand to discuss the company’s wide range of products and services, which include “demand response”, a scheme via which hospitals can earn revenue by using their existing back-up generators.

Market testing, benchmarking, best value reviews, medical device management, and “collaborative working”, are among the services on which management consultant Green & Kassab has worked with NHS facilities management teams over the past two decades, helping them achieve “real quality improvements and tangible financial savings”.

Being shown by Wybone will be the company’s complete range of sackholders, which come in all shapes, sizes, and colours, with 15 to 98 litre capacities, and in a choice of colours from yellow to zebra stripes, “or even a soothing metallic colour”.

Haigh’s Sluicemaster bedpan disposers are designed both to ensure that patients benefit from a new, clean bedpan every time, and that purchasers achieve “significant” cost and energy savings.

Property compliance software specialist NHS Micad will demonstrate a number of new updates and developments it says have been driven by the latest NHS estates strategic thinking on areas including space utilisation, room monitoring, and booking.

Lisclare says the wallmounted or mobile folding screens from Silentia that it will be showing provide a flexible means to segregate genders, “improving privacy and generally helping maintain the dignity of patients on an open ward”.

Specialist in surveying, data collection, and CAD services, Topscan says that, in the past year, many NHS Trusts have invested heavily in the creation of accurate CAD drawings for their building portfolio, helping them improve efficiency in the way their buildings are maintained, reduce costs, and increase the accuracy of information such as ERIC returns, and occupancy data.

Gradus has supplied and fitted a comprehensive wall protection system throughout the New Victoria Wing at the multi-million pound Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

Plumb Center now exclusively offers Saracen Washroom Solutions, a range of standard and bespoke cubicles, ducting, and vanity units, designed for wide-ranging applications.

Offering “a unique service” to diagnostic imaging departments – from design, build, and refurbishment, of clinical rooms, to provision of an interim mobile equipment solution –

ProSurgical Healthcare’s new TACTYS Infection Control flat, glass-tempered, touchscreen, IP65 waterproof, “QWERTY” medical keyboards and TACTYS VOYAGER Mobile IT Cart have been designed in collaboration with the Coordination Centre for the Control of Nosocomial Infections for use in hospitals, dental practices, laboratories, and cleanrooms.

Leaderflush Shapland has added the Abloy UK Smartair access control system to its architectural ironmongery range, in the process “providing the protection of technologically sophisticated access control without the need for a complex online system”.

A modular electrical distribution system from Modular Wiring Systems at Edinburgh’s new Spire Shawfair Park Hospital has speeded completion and won a new convert in the form of senior contracts manager at NG Bailey Stuart McMenigall.

Service connections specialist Crown Energy claims that “the biggest headache in any property development project is coordinating multiple utility service providers”.

A-Gas (UK) has “gone live” with a dedicated website to help businesses gain further insight and help with the virgin HCFC use ban. The re-packager of refrigerant and other gases says that, “despite all the publicity and warnings”, there are still end-users unaware that they may be storing illegal refrigerants.

A £270 million rationalisation of healthcare in Newcastle-upon-Tyne has seen a suite of Rada products installed in two specialist hospitals. The Newcastle Hospitals PFI project involves rationalisation of the city’s currently fragmented clinical services.

An integrated service panel which can incorporate radiant heating, combining hygienic, space-saving, and energyefficient heating with easily installed and maintained services, has been launched by HCP, the specialist heating division of SAS International.

Kaba Door Systems has installed 19 sets of bespoke automatic single sliding door packages at Colchester General Hospital as part of a continuous improvement of patient dignity and privacy there.

With the number of people in the UK classified as obese increasing substantially, Plinth 2000 has introduced a bariatric trolley with a safe working load (SWL) of 320 kg (50 stone), designed to reduce unnecessary patient handling and minimise the risk of client or carer injuries.