Guernsey hospitals praise monitoring system

TME Electronics UK MD, Tom Sensier reports, and also describes the features and benefits of some of the company’s key water monitoring systems and technologies a in healthcare setting. 

Known more often for its beautiful scenery, old-world charm, and a slower pace of life, the island of Guernsey – home to a population of less than 65,000 people – is actually blazing something of a trail when it comes to hospital water safety. Working with us at TM Electronics UK, hospital estate managers in the States of Guernsey are taking innovative new measures to speed up and simplify water temperature monitoring across their healthcare estate. Healthcare services on the island are run on a different financial model than in the UK, but the practical challenges of water safety management in its hospitals and healthcare settings are very much the same, making the solutions identified directly relevant to NHS Trusts in the UK. 

Looking at the what has happened ‘on the ground’ in a little more detail, Guernsey’s Princess Elizabeth Hospital has adopted an innovative and pragmatic strategy for Legionella risk management, using TME’s effective new method of monitoring water temperature in traditionally hard-to-access pipes and thermostatic mixing valves (TMVs). Guernsey’s only acute hospital, Princess Elizabeth is made up of 12 wards and various departments. including all of the island’s diagnostic facilities. The hospital is managed by the States of Guernsey Health, Social Care & Wellbeing Department, which provides integrated health and social care to Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark. Other hospital sites managed by the department are the Mignot Memorial Hospital in Alderney, and the Castel and King Edward VII Hospitals for Mental Health and Elderly Care services respectively.