RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Douglas Delabie says that, “with an alarming 5 –12% of patients in Europe each year contracting a nosocomial infection” its new “specialist” water controls are “sure to be of interest for healthcare professionals”.

British Gypsum GypWall partitions have been selected for all five phases of the Manchester Joint Hospitals PFI project, bringing the total value of the company’s products specified to over £3.5 million.

German “flooring care” company Dr Schutz describes its new “PU Design” product as “an innovative solution that quickly and easily transforms tired, damaged or old vinyl, linoleum or rubber floors at a fraction of the time and cost of a floor replacement”.

Patients in Nottingham are the UK’s first to benefit from a new range of textiles with “proven protection” against healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs).

The Paramount MB from Potterton Commercial is a modular prefabricated condensing heating solution suitable for new and existing plant rooms within a variety of applications, including hospitals.

An easy-to-clean floor supplied and installed by Ryebrook Resins is a key feature of the new mortuary at Milton Keynes General Hospital.

A hand-held spray reportedly proven to be effective against the H1N1 swine flu virus has been launched by a British company.

Evac+Chair International has provided NHS Halton and St Helens’ Primary Care Trust (PCT) with “a simple and cost-effective” means of evacuating staff and patients from its clinics and health centres in emergency.

London’s King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has installed three new highly efficient Byworth Boilers steam boilers.

Promised from Zehnder’s new “Carboline” radiant heating and cooling panels, which comprise copper tubes embedded into a graphite panel, is “extremely even heat distribution with exceptional controllability”.

PKL Foodservice has supplied a complete kitchen and restaurant facility to North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH) to provide temporary catering during an £80 m PFI re-build.

Acrovyn Hydroclad from Construction Specialties (UK) is “the ideal wall cladding surface” for locations such as operating theatres, hospital kitchens and laboratories where hygiene is critical.

Specialist in hazardous material storage Denios (www.denios.co.uk) has produced “an essential guide” which clarifies all of the information and UK regulations for using, handling and properly containing all such items.

SAS International has developed a new CIBSE-recognised CPD presentation on radiant heating. Designed for both engineers and architects,

Among services offered by a company formed by husband and wife team Paul and Kathy Blair in April 2008 are gutter cleaning, maintenance and repair, roof and skylight repair and replacement, re-testing of safety wire systems, and roof maintenance, inspection and appraisal.

Codelocks’ new heavy duty CL600 mechanical locks incorporate a new “Quick Code” system that allows ondoor code changing “in seconds” using the keypad on the lock’s front.

SpeedDeck has provided its secret fix roofing solution and Vitesse architectural cladding panels for the new extension to the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust’s radiotherapy department in Sutton, Surrey.

The way that a growing “body” of artwork has come together in UK healthcare facilities, and the increasing acknowledgment of art’s benefits on the overall “quality” of the patient experience, and speed of recovery, were the themes of a recent “National Patient Environment and the Arts Conference 2009” held in London.

Delegates at Building Better Healthcare’s recent “National Patient Environment and the Arts Conference 2009” in London heard how national public arts think tank ixia has appointed Bristol-based arts and wellbeing development agency Willis Newson to write “concise and convincing guidance” on commissioning art for new healthcare facilities.

Catalyst Healthcare, the PFI consortium managing the Manchester New Hospitals Development, has specified Armitage Shanks’ modern mixer taps and specially designed toilets for the new £500 m healthcare complex.