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Complementary design for a ‘unified hygienic finish’
In healthcare environments, where hygiene is critical, the design and finish of each surface matters. Trovex’s integrated product design approach encapsulates this, providing a suite of solutions that bolster hygiene standards and practicality. The Trovex concept ward illustration features five key solutions: Hygidoor, Diamond wall cladding, Resilience wall protection, Hygipod IPS, and Hygipod MSU. There’s a closer look at each on the back cover (see below). Each product has been designed to complement the others, culminating in a unified hygienic finish. The ease with which these products – all of which are designed and manufactured in the UK – can be installed, and subsequently maintained, is a fundamental aspect of their development. n Hygidoor is a fire-rated doorset that is entirely PVC encapsulated, with a flush triple glazed vision panel, robust core, and thermoformed edges, and is available in a variety of sizes and configurations.
n Diamond PVC wall cladding is a complete system that includes trim, sealants, weld rod, and more. Smooth and hygienic, it is easy to clean and durable. Diamond PVC is the same PVC used across Trovex’s smooth finish Hygidoor, Hygipod IPS, and MSU range of products.
n Resilience wall protection is lightly textured PVC sheet that offers enhanced durability to impact, and is commonly used on Hygidoor.
n Hygipod IPS is a pre-plumbed and modular integrated plumbing system available in washhand basin, sluice, scrub, shower, and other configurations for use across the healthcare estate. Hygienic in design with thermoformed corners, with hinged and lockable doors for ease of installation and maintenance, the system is a leading IPS solution.
IHEEM
February 2024 Volume 78 Number 2
www.iheem.org.uk
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT
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Pilot scheme to boost AP and CP skills
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Ensuring that healthcare engineering professionals possess the necessary competence, skills, and expertise to operate and maintain hospital plant and equipment compliantly and efficiently, and engineering governance more broadly, are areas on which – as a professional engineering institute – IHEEM naturally places considerable emphasis. While historically, hospitals have had engineers on site, trained and educated through industrial apprenticeships, and with the high skill levels and expertise needed to maintain all types of equipment, in an article on pages 39-42, IHEEM AE(D), John Prendergast, asks whether today’s Competent and Authorised Persons in healthcare are in fact sufficiently well-trained, and possess the necessary skills, to properly fulfil their roles. Te article explains that following IHEEM’s
n Hygipod MSU is a vertical bedhead trunking unit that provides power, data, nurse call, and more services to the patient’s bed side. When combined with Hygipod Vent, it consolidates ward ventilation with bedside services – an innovative approach.
All products are available in over 45 colours and finishes, including woodgrain.
Through the provision of a single, consistent hygienic finish across all its products, Trovex demonstrates an understanding of the healthcare estate’s unique needs. The product family is not only designed to enhance visually, but also to uphold the highest standards of cleanliness and durability.
Trovex
Innova House 15 Rash’s Green Norfolk NR19 1JG
T: 01707 254170
www.trovex.com
work to strengthen and promote the role and importance of professional development and independent AEs across its specialist engineering platforms, members highlighted the urgent need to actively support the development of AP and CPs. In response, IHEEM’s Decontamination Technical Platform is currently piloting a programme in Wales aimed at doing just that. Te pilot’s outcomes will be reviewed at the IHEEM AE Conference at Epsom Downs Racecourse in July – the intention being to expand the learning to encompass all IHEEM Technical Platforms. Elsewhere in this issue, there is news of the
five key themes for the 2024 Healthcare Estates conference, with the Call for Presentations now open, and submissions required by mid-March. With the increasing use of ‘smart technology’ and AI in healthcare engineering and medicine, this year’s event will, appropriately, include a new ‘Soſtware & Smart Hospitals’ zone on the exhibition floor. Tis IFHE-‘branded’ issue also includes
international articles from Canada and Australia – one of which reports on a renewable energy microgrid project at a children’s hospital in California aimed at making it the US’s first Net Zero paediatric hospital campus, and the other on an Australian water treatment specialist’s work to implement an effective Legionella mitigation strategy at a Sydney hospital. Te IFHE News pages, meanwhile, report on the IFHE Américas Regional Group’s recent activities and plans for 2024, and on a Canadian long-term care facility’s work to replace ageing HVAC plant – both to cut its energy costs and carbon footprint, and improve comfort for its staff and patients.
Jonathan Baillie,
Editor jonathanbaillie@
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