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SPONSORED BY HEALTH SECTOR NEWS Voice-activated nurse call alarm at hospice


Austco has recently installed its latest IP- based nurse call system, Tacera, in a form that incorporates ‘a well-known speech recognition and entertainment system’ – and thus obviates the need for patients to press a button when they need help – at Thames Hospice’s brand new facility near Maidenhead.


The new hospice is reportedly the only adult such facility providing both inpatient and community palliative and end-of-life care services across East Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire. Its services are offered free to all who need them.


Austco initially installed its standard Tacera nurse call system as part of the construction of the new hospice near Bray, but when key hospice staff visited the demonstration facility at its


Bromsgrove headquarters, they saw the speech recognition and entertainment feature in action, and felt it a ‘must have’. Austco said: “The buttons/handsets etc are still there, but the convenience, particularly for those patients that may not have the strength to press a button, enables nurses to be alerted should the patient need them. All patients need do is


call out ‘Help, room XX’, with their room number, and a call is raised on the nurse call system. The entertainment system interprets the command, and sends a signal to the nurse call component, the two systems working together so that the source of the command is translated into an alarm from the correct room. The call appears on the system as if the patient had pressed the call button. “On entering the room, the nurse presses the presence button to show they are in attendance, and can cancel the alarm from there. The entertainment system also offers patients all its usual entertainment options in their room.” Austco is now working with Thames Hospice to see where else integrations and innovations can be used to improve even further on the levels of care offered.


Helping Manchester’s Nightingale prevent infections nine-bladed macerator completes a cycle


DDC Dolphin has supplied the NHS Nightingale Hospital North West with several of its Pulpmatic Ultima medical macerators for safe disposal of pulp bedpans and human waste. Operation is hands-free on the Pulpmatic Ultima, the company’s largest capacity medical pulp macerator, which DDC Dolphin recommends for high-use sluice rooms because – it claims – it offers the market’s the largest maceration, and a very short cycle time. The


in just 120 seconds – safely pulverising up to six items of medical pulp each time, while a programmable automatic drain flush limits the build-up of stagnant water, to help combat the risk of Legionella. Pre- and post-maceration self-cleaning helps prevent blockages in waste pipes.


The Ultima’s lid has built- in antimicrobial technology, while an optional noise reduction kit makes it suitable for quieter isolation wards. DDC Dolphin


Marketing director, Zoe Allen, said: “Alongside its market-leading capacity, the Pulpmatic Ultima uses very little energy and water. We’ve always been proud to support the NHS – especially now, as staff face rising numbers of COVID-19 cases, the annual winter ‘flu season, and a backlog of postponed procedures.”


The 750-bedded Nightingale North West field hospital at Manchester Central was set up in just 13 days. Earlier this year, DDC Dolphin supplied 16 sluice room machines to Cardiff’s Nightingale Hospital at the Principality Stadium.


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   January 2021 Health Estate Journal 15


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