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Work-based training’s ‘profound effect’

An examination by Eastwood Park of the benefits of work-based learning. The training establishment says work-based degree students can act as ‘the subtle drivers of positive change’.

Radiotherapy suite can take the strain

The key design, construction, and installation challenges – including the lifting in of six 10-tonne ‘linacs’ – in building a new second floor cancer centre at London’s Guy’s Hospital, described.

Humidity control key for many reasons

When determining humidity control requirements for operating theatres, engineers should consider both clinical issues and engineering criteria, a specialist in the field explains.

Traditional skills, modern technologies

One of the UK’s leading human waste disposal equipment manufacturers explains what makes its systems ‘unique’, and how its engineering expertise is backed by first-class service.

Trust plays its part in Carter agenda

A bedstacker designed to stop empty beds being left in hospital corridors is the latest innovation from a Salisbury Trust.

Collaborative project optimises LED lighting

Early 2013 saw Brandon Medical, which designs and manufactures equipment ranging from operating theatre lighting to medical AV and control systems, celebrate ‘20 years of innovation and growth’, with a move to a new £2 million, 50,000 ft2 headquarters in Morley near Leeds, twice the size of its former premises.

Platform for a better built environment

IHEEM’s recently established Architecture and Design of the Built Environment Technical Platform (ADBETP) is now firmly up and running, and, as one of its members, Gary Mortimer, general manager, Facilities & Estates, at NHS Grampian, puts it, is determined to bring tangible, positive, and sustainable benefits to the NHS built environment to support the effective delivery of changing clinical needs’. Equally, the Platform hopes its activities will ‘add value to IHEEM members, technical professionals in health construction and operational management, and other healthcare professionals working in NHS buildings’. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.

TR/19 update – key concerns addressed

With trade association for the heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration sectors, the Building and Engineering Services Association (B&ES), having recently updated its ‘TR/19’ guidance document – dealing with the internal cleanliness of ventilation systems – Health Estate Journal (HEJ) asks Richard Norman (RN), chairman of the Association’s Ventilation Hygiene Group Branch, and MD of specialist ventilation cleaning services provider, Indepth Hygiene, about the changes, and why the revisions were needed.

Significant potential for lower costs

Switching to LED lighting has, specialist supplier of such technology, Exled maintains, ‘proven to be one of the most significant cost-saving activities hospitals can undertake’.

Specifying to meet multiple demands

Choosing flooring for healthcare takes careful consideration. New legislation in healthcare places greater responsibility on those throughout the supply chain to ensure the safety of staff, visitors, and patients – now, and in the future.

Designing the future: care closer to home

According to its architects, Maber, the Corby Urgent Care Centre is “the first of its kind, providing a combination of primary and emergency care facilities in a community-focused building that patients and staff agree is friendly, welcoming, and ‘unlike a hospital’.”

Full de-steam ahead for Yeovil facility

Keen to address one of the major priorities on its backlog maintenance list, and, in the process, to significantly reduce both its carbon footprint and energy bills, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has recently entered into a 15-year Energy Performance Contract (EPC) with Cynergin.

CHP project brings substantial savings

With the NHS having committed to reduce its carbon footprint by 10% by 2015, Alan Newman, a partner at building services engineers, Troup Bywaters + Anders (TB+A), describes how, with the company’s expertise and help, customer, the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, ‘surpassed the targets two years in advance’.

‘Lean’ approach gives greater efficiency

Adapting the ‘Lean’ methodologies used for many years by many manufacturers on the production line – such as in the automotive industry – and deploying them in healthcare ‘spaces’ can, Roger Call, an architect at Herman Miller Healthcare in the US, argues, ‘easily remedy many of the inefficiencies’ found within a healthcare facility.

Balancing aesthetics, safety and security

HEJ asks Colin Freeman, managing director of commercial door and window specialist, ATB Systems, about trends in the design of windows and doors for healthcare, and some of the challenges of meeting legislative and sector- specific requirements.

Minimising infection– from floor to ceiling

Dr Sarah Peake, product sustainability manager at specialty chemicals company, Sika – which provides solutions for concrete, waterproofing, roofing, flooring, refurbishment, sealing and bonding, and industry – looks at the fundamentals for keeping floors, walls, and ceilings in hospitals and other healthcare facilities ‘in excellent health’.

Footballer tells of ‘near-tragic incident’ at Healthcare Estates

A ‘Michael Parkinson-style’ one-to-one interview which saw Fabrice Muamba, the Zaire-born ex-professional footballer who survived a cardiac arrest while playing for Bolton Wanderers in March 2012 that saw his heart stop beating for 78 minutes, tell his story.

Weathering storms, learning lessons

In an article based on a presentation at last month’s Institute of Hospital Engineering Australia (IHEA) Management Conference in Brisbane, Kim Bruton, chief engineer, MIHEA, NZIHE, CHCFM, of Northeast Health Wangaratta (NHW) in Victoria, describes some of the interesting experiences, challenges, and wider lessons learned, during his first five years as facility manager at the major referral health service for the north-east Victoria region.

Uninterrupted service on the hospital menu

Lee Vines, sales and marketing director at PKL Group, a leading supplier of temporary and permanent catering infrastructure, considers the challenges facing hospital caterers and estates managers in ensuring that catering equipment is kept up-to-date and fit-for-purpose

Less jargon, more common ground

June Lancaster, a nurse by background, who has spent 35 years working within healthcare and facilities management companies, and now runs her own consultancy, Asset Wisdom, and Steve Goodchild, an engineer with over 40 years’ healthcare engineering experience, and a director at estates and facilities solutions consultancy, CPA, argue that better teamwork and communication between clinicians and estates and facilities professionals, and a greater understanding of each other’s roles, would contribute significantly to an even safer, more efficient, patient care environment.

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