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Bespoke catheter storage for Blackrock Clinic
Medstor Ireland recently worked with David Jordan Architects and main contractor, Titanium Developments, at the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin to provide catheter and general storage for the clinic’s impressive new dedicated electrophysiology (EP) laboratory. Cardiac catheterisation gives doctors important information about the condition of the heart muscle, valves, and blood vessels in patients with cardiac arrhythmia. Expensive and delicate, the catheters used must be stored very carefully. The new laboratory – part of a €2 m investment – gives Irish patients access to the latest technologies – some not widely available in most European countries. Medstor was brought in early, when the architects asked Business Development manager, Dom Gradwell, to review designs and ensure they met HTM 71 requirements. He then worked with the Medstor team to develop a full materials management programme – including catheter-specific cabinets, each with capacity for boxed catheters and additional storage, and standard cabinets for medical / surgical supplies. All the cabinetry was in a bright white colourway to complement the lab’s ‘clean, modern aesthetics’. Medstor equipped the cabinets with telescopic runners that hold an 800 mm deep mesh tray. A bespoke divider across its X and Y axis keeps the catheters separate from each other, minimising damage risk, while the
Webinar addresses the energy price challenge
No one can have failed to notice the impact of rising energy prices over the last year, and with NHS budgets already more stretched, dealing with the impact of energy prices at historic highs, and the lack of budget certainty, have become a major challenge. On 9 February 2023 from 2.00-3.00
telescopic runners means trays can be pulled out very smoothly, and the back accessed as easily as the front. While catheters must be kept behind closed, locked doors for security and infection control, Blackrock Clinic wanted the clinical team to be able to see what was behind each door, so they could find items quickly. As locks cannot be attached to polycarbonate, Medstor designed a framed door, the frame around the polycarbonate providing a surface to which the lock could be fitted. Medstor said: ”Once again, our solutions meant every millimetre of space could be used to the full, streamlining storage, and ensuring that all catheters and consumables were stored safely until needed.”
pm Health Estate Journal will host a webinar with energy management and sustainability consultancy, Inenco, with the session – presented by the company’s head of Procurement, Stuart Lea, and head of New Business, Jordan Rassas – designed to help attendees better understand the dynamics of the energy market, and in particular: n What is currently happening in the energy market?
n Why are prices so high? n What might happen next? n How best to mitigate the impact of rising prices.
n What factors to consider in shaping the right energy trading strategy. With a 54-year heritage, Inenco claims to be one of the longest- established energy management consultancies. This promises to be an invaluable session to better understand and respond to one of the most pressing issues facing NHS Estates teams. To register to attend the webinar, visit:
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Planning application submitted for Consett community hospital
A planning application has been submitted for a new community hospital in Consett, designed by Medical Architecture for County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust as part of the New Hospitals Programme. The plans for Shotley Bridge
Community Hospital will see it designed to provide opportunities for patients and staff to ‘connect with the outdoors’. Arranged around two large, landscaped courtyards, it will offer services including outpatient services and diagnostics, an urgent care centre, a medical investigations unit for cancer services and chemotherapy day unit, family health services, and a 16-bedded rehabilitation inpatient ward. Sited ‘at a gateway to the County Durham countryside’, the proposed location is 1.8 miles from the
existing Shotley Bridge Hospital, which it will replace. The site masterplan includes a new pedestrian and cycle link which connects with the adjacent Coast-to-Coast cycle route, and a new footpath from the town centre. A simple plan, arranged around a pair of courtyards, brings natural daylight deep into the building’s heart, and offers almost all occupied rooms an outside view. The courtyard spaces, with landscape design by ONE Environments, feature planting ‘rich in texture, form, and colour’. County Durham is well known
historically for the use of sandstone for important civic buildings, and the
predominant external cladding material is a textured, multi light buff brick with similar visual qualities to the local sandstone. An undulating, perforated metal rainscreen is proposed to ‘crown’ the top storey, reflecting the site’s historic significance as part of the former Consett Steelworks. The hospital has been designed to achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’, and will harness principles of standardisation and repeatability and Modern Methods of Construction.
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