Anti-Ligature Shop (ALS) dubs itself ‘a true supplier’ to the mental health and custodial sectors, ‘with a reputation for innovation and quality’, and claims to be ‘the only supplier of specialist anti-ligature products under all one roof’.

Feel Better Sooner (FBS) Furniture, which has manufactured and installed mental health furniture for high, medium, and low secure units UKwide for many years, invites show visitors to ‘come and look at and touch’ its products.

Hochiki Europe says it has developed a number of technologies that can prevent false fire alarms. Its optical smoke sensors feature its High Performance Chamber Technology, which minimises the differences in sensitivity experienced in flaming and smouldering fires.

The Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) partnership has published a concise but detailed document setting out some of the options for more sustainably and effectively preventing acute hospitals from summer overheating.

Energy and utilities management specialist, Dalkia, boasts over 75 years’ experience within the healthcare sector. It has helped more than 100 hospitals throughout the UK to meet carbon reduction strategies and reduce costs.

A Turbidity Monitoring System for detecting non-conductive contaminants such as fats, oils, and greases, in condensate, enabling steam system operators ‘to recover substantial amounts of energy that would otherwise be lost’, has been launched by Spirax Sarco.

Devising a strategy to deliver safe water to thousands of outlets spread across numerous buildings is always going to be a challenge, so how do you navigate your way through a bewildering labyrinth of sometimes contradictory guidance documents?

According to specialist in optimised resource management, Veolia, combined heat and power (CHP) ‘has been proven for its effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions, thanks to the efficient way that the technology simultaneously derives power and heat from the combustion process’.

In mid-November last year Ryhurst signed what it dubbed ‘a ground-breaking strategic estates partnership’ agreement with the Isle of Wight NHS Trust (HEJ – January 2015). Under the Wight Life Partnership, the two organisations will work in partnership ‘to comprehensively review the estate across all the Trust’s sites to ensure that buildings and grounds are being fully utilised, and suitable for modern healthcare’. This is Ryhurst’s third such ‘whole estate’ joint-venture agreement with the NHS, and the first with a non-Foundation Trust, harnessing an approach that sees the company shoulder a considerable part of the burden of making optimum use of, and deriving ‘maximum value’ from, large healthcare estates. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.

Personal alarm and critical communications system manufacturer Atus Systems’ origins are founded in the Personal Security Product division of the Bosch group group. Atus’ ‘rich history’ goes back to the 1960s, when Philips started its on-site paging business in Breda in Netherlands, a business that in 2002 was acquired by Bosch, and then, in September 2010, by Atus, when it became an independent company, allowing it to focus directly on critical communication solutions.

An independent water hygiene consultant and Authorising Engineer (Water) reports on the potential lessons from his recent work collecting Pseudomonas aeuruginosa samples from 14 UK Trusts.

One of the leading IP-based nurse call specialists considers how increasing connectivity with other devices is enhancing the capabilities and ‘reach’ of nurse call equipment.

The background to, and rationale behind the development of the Design Quality Indicator for Health ‘tool’, explained by a chartered architect who was one of the co-authors.

A leading plastic pipe supplier highlights the importance of specifying a sufficiently robust pipe product able, for instance, to accommodate thermal and chemical disinfection.

Maintaining ‘sufficient and safe’ electrical supplies, and the role of the Authorised Person.

A detailed focus on the need to take all necessary steps to protect patients against electrical hazard and shock while they are being treated or operated on in healthcare premises.

The President of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering hereby convenes the IFHE General Assembly to be held on the afternoon of Monday 16 April 2012 on board the Norwegian coastal steamer MS Midnatsol during the course of the IFHE 22nd Congress, 14-17 April, organised by the Forum for Sykehusenes Tekniske Ledelse (FSTL) Norway.

Bespoke Vistamatic vision panels have been specified for the Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, which will comprise 32 campuses, and will ultimately accommodate over 40,000 students and 12,000 employees, boasting a 700-bed teaching hospital, plus research centres for nanotechnology, information technology, and bioscience.

Speaking at the Health Estates and Facilities Management Association’s (HEFMA) 2011 national conference in Torquay, Mike Hall, general manager, facilities, at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, explained how, with estates and facilities departments expected to significantly contribute to the £20 billion in savings the NHS must achieve over the next 3-4 years.

The Building Better Healthcare Award-winning Optitherm thermostatic tap from Horne Engineering has been designed to assist with infection control, ensure safe surface temperatures, facilitate cleaning and maintenance, and provide thermostatically controlled warm water for handwashing, and dedicated cold water for drinking.