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JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT
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REGULARS
5 Comment: Risk assessor competence and knowledge often lacking 5 Cover Story: Vertical bed storage solution making its mark on UK hospitals 7 Institute News: Annual Report reflects on an eventful 2021 11 Health Sector News: Trial shows UV sanitisers can ‘remove COVID-19’ 18 IFHE News: ‘Unleashing innovation’ the theme in Toronto
FEATURES
21 2021: IFHE-EU’s busy year and Presidential handover Considering the challenges presented by COVID-19 worldwide, the IFHE’s European Group had another successful, and certainly eventful, year in 2021, reports its Treasurer, and IHEEM’s IFHE representative, David Whiteley.
25 Hospital engineers’ key role in disaster mitigation Tokyo Teishin Hospital director, Hiroshi Yasuhara, and the University of Tokyo Hospital’s Hidenao Atarashi, discuss their experience following 2011’s Great East Japan Earthquake, the key learnings, and how these have informed actions to further improve their hospitals’ preparedness for future natural disasters.
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31 AGM: President and CEO look back at eventful year IHEEM’s 2021 AGM saw President, Paul Fenton, report on a difficult year, while CEO, Pete Sellars, looked to plans for 2022. The winner of the 2021 IHEEM Lifetime Achievement Award was announced.
37 Improving standards in Legionella risk assessment IHEEM Registered AE (Water), Steve Mount, discusses, on behalf of the IHEEM Water Technical Platform, the current standard of Legionella risk assessments seen in the healthcare community.
44 Ensuring effective fire safety strategies for healthcare Fire safety has long been a high priority for healthcare estates teams, but has assumed ever greater prominence following 2017’s Grenfell Tower fire. At October’s Healthcare Estates 2021 conference, Andrew Foolkes, Principal Fire engineer at Tenos, presented on ‘Fire Safety Management Competency’.
50 Ventilator alerts delivered through nurse call system John Evans, a Sales manager at designer, developer, and manufacturer of nurse call systems, Wandsworth Healthcare, explains how the company delivered a reliable alarm system for a surgical ward at Basildon University Hospital in Essex to
instantly alert hospital staff to ventilator failure, removal, or misuse.
54 COVID-19 puts efficient and reliable running into focus DRLC’s Project director, Dr Louise Webb, and MD David Livingstone, consider how to keep ventilation plant in healthcare facilities running reliably, and – with the drive towards Net Zero – efficiently and sustainably.
59 Innovative circuit breakers for Oxford’s largest hospital The Business Development manager at electrical distribution and control specialist, Electrical Distribution Solutions, describes a project at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital to replace obsolete low voltage air circuit breakers with retrofit variants, which will significantly extend the life of the existing
switchboard.
63 Increasing shift to MMC requires different mindset Regina Kennedy, Healthcare Strategy and Planning director at ETL – the consultancy owned by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, argues that the presumption in government circles toward greater use of Modern Methods of Construction in healthcare projects calls for a different mindset and approach.
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