Healthcare Estates Additional capacity on demand
Vanguard Healthcare Solutions will showcase the features of its ‘innovative fleet of mobile surgical facilities’. The company currently supplies the NHS and other healthcare providers across Europe with additional clinical capacity on demand, enabling the treatment of over 235,000 patients since 2002. Its flexible service offering includes ‘the integrated delivery of mobile facilities (including operating theatres, endoscopy suites, wards, clinics and day surgery units), highly qualified staff, and state-of-the-art equipment, for periods ranging from days to years’.
Vanguard’s fleet of 40 mobile surgical facilities ‘provides solutions to many modern healthcare challenges’, including: n Providing additional capacity to increase patient access.
n Maintaining capacity during refurbishment.
n Responding quickly to emergency situations.
n Bringing care closer to patient communities.
n Enabling service reconfiguration. n Supporting the development of new care models.
Commercially focused advice
Law firm, Sintons’ Healthcare team has extensive experience of advising NHS organisations on all real estate issues, with a combination of legal expertise and sector knowledge that it says ensures that its clients receive ‘timely, pragmatic, and commercially- focused ‘advice. The firm said: “We have advised on a large number of real estate and commercial arrangements – from site developments, site disposal and acquisition, overage and option agreements, to joint
venture/collaboration agreements, complex commercial projects, and
Tapping into drinking water products
Heatrae Sadia, a leading expert in electric heating, unvented hot water cylinders, and water heaters for storage and drinking water, will spotlight its wide range of drinking water products. The company said: “More than any other environment, safety is paramount in the healthcare sector. With this in mind, traditional urns and kettles are often unsuitable, as they pose several hazards; for example, a unit could easily be knocked over, or a kettle user scalded by water or steam.” Heatrae Sadia offers a diverse selection of electric hot water products, which deliver instant hot water ‘without the risks’. Options include boiling water taps, counter, and wall-mounted models, available in a variety of capacities to suit each application. “Equally, chilled water comes with its own set of considerations,” Heatrae Sadia added. “Our mains-fed water chillers guarantee a fresh and perfectly
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estates management matters. The team assists clients from the outset of any transaction in assessing viability, structure, and risks. We work closely with each client to minimise risk and provide commercial solutions to problems. “We support every client in fulfilling their specific strategic estates plan, and, as part of this, help them manage occupancies by providing ongoing advice on landlord and tenant matters. We are often called upon to provide advice to our NHS clients on wider strategic issues to identify and release existing capital and revenue sources.”
The company said: “We will also be exhibiting a new community-based healthcare service we have developed to answer the call for more localised care. Using a combination of mobile and modular facilities, we want to enable the transfer of a degree of acute care into the community setting.”
Projects designed using BIM
Building services consultancy, Steven Hunt & Associates, will showcase its ‘specialist understanding of the building services requirements of a wide variety of healthcare settings’. The company said: “Our multidisciplinary team of expert professionals works with clients, project leaders, architects, and consultant partners to engineer integrated mechanical and electrical services solutions best suited to each new-build or refurbishment scheme. We have an established track record in designing projects in BIM, ensuring that the building services infrastructure is accurately documented in 3D models for legacy management of the healthcare asset. The Steven Hunt teams work closely with estates managers, clinical teams, patient groups, and Trust, to tailor creative solutions that answer both operational and wellbeing requirements.” Recent projects include the £18 m Altrincham Health Centre, a four-storey new build-facility in Cheshire, and a £4 million project to create two new operating theatres and an MRI suite at The Walton Centre in Liverpool (pictured), which includes full 3D design and a new rooftop plantroom.
chilled drink every time, while avoiding the hygiene concerns of bottled-water coolers.” The SuperChill collection includes wall, floor and sink-mounted chillers, ‘meaning a safe, reliable option suitable for every healthcare facility’.
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