RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

A self-powered, robust, portable trolley cart for its computer terminals designed to provide medical staff and patients with easy, instant access to information has been launched by JAOtech.

A “whole room” single portable unit disinfection & air purification system that reportedly deodorises and refreshes air, removes and sterilises dust and airborne particles, and controls contamination by virus, bacteria, mould, and fungus, has been unveiled by PureLightUK.

C-TECs “cost-effective and versatile” addressable call system, Quantec, has been specified by nurse call and panic alarm specialist Contract Distributors for a new £7.5 million healthcare facility in Great Malvern, Worcestershire.

Fitted furniture valued at £371,000 from David Bailey Furniture Systems has been specified by architects Watkins Gray International for many of the main wards and reception areas at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children as part of a series of refurbishment projects undertaken by construction company Mansell.

Trend says the look, feel and mode of operation of the IQView4 touch screen display for its building management systems will be “instantly familiar” to anyone with an MP3 player, satellite navigation system or modern mobile phone.

Gradus has installed wall protection and barrier matting at a new treatment centre at King’s Mill Hospital, Mansfield.

Installers and healthcare estate managers “seeking a traditional appearance, yet a more user-friendly economic alternative to cast iron guttering”, should look no further, Marshall-Tufflex says, than the company’s new Universal Elegance cast iron appearance system.

Glenfield Hospital, one of three University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust hospitals in the city, has bough two Traka L Series (180) secure key cabinets to replace a previous “unreliable” system, which gave little data on users, often simply reporting that an “unknown user” had accessed a key.

An electronic logging system that, via engineer-generated, real-time reports, enables estates personnel to constantly monitor both the temperature and condition of water, and the efficiency and operation of water plant at multiple sites, which will also email them immediately should a problem arise, has been launched by Kent-based eLogger.

Waterford Regional Hospital in the Republic of Ireland is using Spirax Sarco clean steam generators to meet strict steam quality standards in its central sterilisation department.

The new Liebert FS is a low noise, compact, lightweight flywheel DC energy storage system from Emerson Network Power designed to meet the power storage requirements necessary to ensure power continuity when mains power to a protected load fails.

A “perfect combination of strength, hygiene and performance, making it very well suited to healthcare environments”, are the key features claimed for a new composite washbasin material from Franke Sissons.

The new Net2 nano wireless single door access control unit, designed to “extend the possibilities “of Paxton Access’s Net2 product, eliminates the need for hardwiring between door controllers and a PC by replacing a wired connection with a wireless version.

Sidhil claims to have “re-written the hospital bed rule book” with its new Independence Innov8 range, developed and manufactured in the UK “to meet the researched requirements of patients and hospital teams”.

Marshall-Tufflex says its new Bio Trucking Solutions antimicrobial trunking system has “created a huge amount of interest”, with a number of healthcare Trusts discussing its potential with the manufacturer.

Part of the Carmarthenshire division of Hywel Dda NHS Trust’s hard-hitting infection prevention measures includes introducing Vernacare’s new Tuffie 5 wipe – said to eradicate the major five major groups of pathogens such as Clostridium difficile, MRSA and E. coli.

Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge has significantly reduced its energy consumption by upgrading over 1,000 existing lighting fittings using Chalmor’s EasiFit T5 kit.

Greenstock says its long-life incandescent lamps are “guaranteed to last up to 16 times longer than standard incandescent lamps while providing an alternative to low-energy fluoresecent light bulbs”.

Claiming that, until now, it has only been possible to effectively disinfect water softening equipment during normal servicing,

JAOtech’s new Arie is an 18.5 inch widescreen “smart” patient bedside terminal, the company’s largest to date, designed specifically to support high resolution graphics for exceptional image quality, allowing clinical and diagnostic images, including X-rays, to be viewed with the required clarity.