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MAT UCV systems for charity hospital’s new theatres
Four new UCV operating theatre suites at North London’s St John and St Elizabeth Hospital – one of the country’s largest independent charity hospitals – feature Medical Air Technology’s ‘energy- efficient’ ECO-flow ultraclean ventilation (UCV) systems. The private hospital, founded in 1865,
offers an extensive range of specialist outpatient clinics, and has over 60 private rooms. In 2018, work began on a new three-
floor, £35 m wing for the main hospital – the largest investment there to date. Facilities include six operating theatres, an endoscopy unit, a day-case department with en-suite facilities, upgraded Urgent Care and Critical Care units, a dedicated staff and consultant training area, and a ‘patient-focused’ admissions lounge. MAT’s ECO-flow UCV systems were specified for four of the six new theatres, being favoured both by the hospital’s Estates and Clinical teams. The ECO-flow canopy creates a ‘clean
zone’ around the surgical table and clinical team, using controlled airflow to filter out particles from the supplied air, dilute contaminated air, and prevent entry of contaminated air from outside the theatre. MAT said: “This dramatically reduces the risk of surgical site infection.
NEPC: Infection control measures need ‘stepping up’
Government must ‘seize the post- pandemic opportunity’ to mandate long-term improvements to infection control in commercial, public, and residential buildings ‘to reduce the transmission of future waves of COVID-19, new pandemics, seasonal influenza, and other infectious diseases’.
The use of a UCV or laminar flow strategy for orthopaedic surgery is specified in HTM 03-01: Specialised ventilation for healthcare buildings.” The ‘ring-within-a-ring’ design of the
Merivaara Q-Flow LED operating lights fitted by Bender UK in the theatres will prevent the specialist airflow provided by the ECO-flow canopy being interrupted, and infection prevention being compromised.
Cistermiser claims its new EasyFlushEVO range will ‘revolutionise’ WC flushing, ‘by bringing together the previously unattainable benefits of non-touch and leak-free flushing’. It said: “The patented siphon flush design means there is no flush seal below the waterline, so, unlike traditional flush valves, it will not leak due to debris, scale, or seal degradation.
Cistermiser MD, Richard Braid, said: “We all know how much water is wasted through leaking toilets. According to water efficiency NGO, Waterwise, a leaking toilet wastes between 215 and 400 litres of clean drinking water on average every day. Between 5 and 8% of toilets are estimated to be leaking, adding up to around 400 million litres of water leaking from UK daily. Against a backdrop of the climate crisis and
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Cistermiser tackles leaky toilets head-on the road to Net Zero, losses like these
are clearly unsustainable. That’s why the launch of EasyFlushEVO – calculated to save up to 78,475 litres of water per unit per annum – is so significant.” ‘Simple to install’ for both new build and retrofit/refurbishment, and available with a 1.5 in or 2 in outlet fitting, the EasyflushEVO is a sensor-activated siphon dual flush valve that reportedly prevents cross-contamination with pathogens via non-touch controls. Its ‘stylish and rugged’ stainless steel sensor plate can be mains or battery- powered, ‘out of the box’. Cistermiser has also launched the EVO CISTERN Sensor WC flushing kit – ‘a non-touch, leak-free flushing solution’, complete with a fill valve and concealed cistern with 1.5 in flush pipe outlet and flush cone.
So says a National Engineering Policy Centre report, Infection resilient environments: time for a major upgrade, which says ‘infection control must also be coordinated with efforts to improve energy efficiency and fire safety – to support the three goals of safe, healthy, and sustainable buildings’. According to an economic assessment that informed the report, another severe pandemic during the next 60 years could have an annual ‘societal cost’ to the UK of £23 bn. ‘Even without the extreme circumstances of a pandemic’, it estimates that seasonal diseases cost the UK up to £8 bn annually in disruption and sick days. The NEPC says improving ventilation, air quality, and sanitation in buildings could minimise transmission, reducing the number of people infected – thereby saving lives, and reducing ill health and its societal impacts.
Commissioned in 2021 by the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, the NEPC research, led by the Royal Academy of Engineering and CIBSE, set out to identify the measures needed in the UK’s built environment and transport systems to reduce infectious disease transmission. While ensuring that buildings and transport systems are ‘designed, operated, managed, and regulated for infection control’ is critical, the report says the pandemic has highlighted that many UK buildings are not being operated according to the current air quality standards, ‘because they were built to previous standards, or before standards’ introduction, have been modified over time, or are not operated as originally intended’. Pictured is the Nightingale Hospital created at Manchester Central.
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