RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

WT Partnership Health Consulting now offers a new, “expert service” to healthcare organisations that need support in the production of business cases – an addition to its long-established role working with all types of healthcare Trusts in the areas of construction cost control, procurement, and facilities management.

Traka will provide information on its “cost-effective” systems for providing hospitals with a full audit of key usage, and controlling access to drugs, equipment and vehicles.

Problems associated with installing sinks in healthcare facilities are “washed away” when TEAL hot water hand wash units are used instead, the Birmingham company claims.

Static Systems Group will have two stands, one (M1) specifically dedicated to fire alarms, and the other (M27) giving visitors a “sneak preview” of a future single bed ward.

The Healthcare Facilities Consortium (HFC), in association with the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM), will host a “Focus on FM” area within the exhibition that will be running alongside the conference sessions.

Described as “an extremely flexible medical supply unit”, Cableflow’s “the Panel” embodies, the company says, its “experience and innovative approach to bedhead services attained over many years”.

Highlights on Horne Engineering’s stand will include a computer generated, photo-realistic animation giving a “comprehensive tour” of Horne’s new, improved range of surface mounted shower panels, a selection of which will also be shown, and the company’s award-winning Optitherm thermostatic tap.

GypWall EXTREME, a lightweight, extreme impact-resistant partition for applications where the most onerous BS5234 Severe Duty rating does not provide sufficient performance assurance, will be shown by British Gypsum.

The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) will highlight its position as the relevant learned society and professional body for all those working in healthcare engineering, estates and facilities management.

Bender UK, the manufacturer of isolated power system and surgeon’s panels, will show a new TCP/IP product in Harrogate, to complement its existing FTC470XET module, that allows Bender IPS systems to be interrogated remotely.

Information on all its pre-engineered systems, including the Spirax Sarco EasiHeat system, a popular energy-saving replacement for hospital calorifiers said to save plant room space, “virtually eliminate” maintenance downtime, and provide hot water on demand, will be available from Spirax Sarco.

Reliance Water Controls has developed a new range of thermostatic taps designed to meet the requirements of HTM 64 and thus “ideal for the healthcare washroom”.

Brandon Medical claims to be the world’s first company to launch surgical lights using what it dubs “the new innovative HD-LED technology”.

Provider of estates and facilities management software Service Works Group will showcase the latest version of its flagship technology solution, QFM.

Being demonstrated by Lisclare is a range of new partition screens for use in the healthcare sector to assist in combating infection control.

With estates and facilities professionals “recognising the advantages of a blanket contract covering all areas of maintenance, validation, and testing services for all their equipment”, Lancer’s Technical Support Division is well placed to offer such a package, in turn helping healthcare providers achieve greater efficiency and economies of scale.

The Vernacare Technical Services division will be officially launched at Healthcare Estates 2009, where the company will also unveil a full-size prototype of its radical new easy-clean porter’s chair.

Kemper will show its Kemper Hygiene System (KHS), an “engineering solution” for preventing Legionella within cold water systems, which “works dynamically” without using chemical treatment.

powerPerfector, which provides technology that reportedly optimises and improves the incoming electricity voltage for a whole site, in the process reducing energy used and costs by “up to 20%” and maximum demand by “up to 15%”, will describe the technology’s first hospital application in Scotland.

Health Estate Journal – the magazine of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) – makes it a priority to deliver must-have information to engineering, estates, and facilities management professionals employed in the healthcare sector.