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FEATURES 18 PANDEMIC IN FOCUS AT ‘VIRTUAL’ IFHE EVENT
This month will see the Italian Society for Healthcare Architecture and Engineering (SIAIS –Società Italiana e dell’Ingegneria per la Sanità ) host the 26th International Federation of Healthcare Engineering Congress – IFHE 2020, themed ‘Global Climate Action Energy Requirements – The approach, the work organisation, and the future of hospital engineering’, online.
23 LIVERPOOL CANCER CENTRE’S ‘PIONEERING TREATMENT’ A major new hospital that will transform cancer care in a region that is one of the worst affected nationally by the disease opened its doors in the heart of Liverpool last June. The 11-storey Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool will deliver highly specialist care – including ‘pioneering immunotherapy and the most advanced forms of radiotherapy’.
30 DON’T ASSUME YOUR SYSTEM IS UNDERSTOOD
Dr Susanne Surman-Lee, a State Registered Consultant Clinical Scientist, and director at independent public health consultancy, Leegionella Ltd, and George McCracken, head of Estates Risk and Environment at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, take an in-depth look at some of the challenges and complexities of maintaining safe and hygienic healthcare water systems.
37 DEALING WITH EXCESS NOISE ON HOSPITAL SITES
There are many factors to consider when dealing with sound and vibration in and around hospital sites. Ken Marriott, a mechanical engineer specialising in sound and vibration, draws on his extensive acoustic design and problem-solving expertise in and around hospital buildings to provide advice and guidance to healthcare engineers on protecting patients and staff against excess noise.
42 HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS: IDEAL FOR THE NHS?
With growing pressure for economies worldwide to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels, Eric Thomas, a former head of Environmental Management and Engineering at NHS Wales Shared Services, Specialist Estate Services division, and Guto Owen, a specialist in hydrogen and fuel cells, discuss the potential for wider adoption of hydrogen fuel cell technology in NHS buildings, and in transport.
45 HOSPITAL OXYGEN SUPPLY ANALYSED IN RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC
Carl-Magnus von Behr, a PhD student at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) at the University of Cambridge, Oliver Lambson, co-founder of a carbon fibre electric guitar start-up, Rubato Guitars, Moritz Meyer zu Köcker, Logistics project manager at MAN Trucks and Bus, and Tom Ridgman, who formerly delivered the MPhil course in Industrial Systems, Manufacture, and Management at the IfM, discuss a project to determine whether the hospital oxygen infrastructure in the UK had sufficient capacity to supply the rapidly rising number of COVID-19 patients.
51 THREE KEY AREAS TACKLED EN ROUTE TO NET ZERO CARBON
Heidi Barnard, Group head of Sustainability at The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group of hospitals and community services in Greater Manchester, describes the organisation’s journey towards Net Zero Carbon. The Group has had to 'develop and reprioritise the environmental impacts' of its decisions.
55 CLAMP-ON FLOWMETERS HELP MANAGE INCREASED DEMAND Since the start of the COVID-19 global pandemic, NHS Trusts have experienced significant concerns around oxygen system deficiencies, especially with the increased use of high flow oxygen devices such as ventilators. Here, Andy Hammond, MD at Flexim Instruments UK, discusses the importance of achieving actual dynamic flow measurement at various delivery and take-off points in the piped oxygen delivery system.
59 STRIKING A BALANCE BETWEEN ‘GREEN’ AND ‘CLEAN’ MODELS
As global healthcare systems recover and learn from the effects of COVID-19, the focus is increasingly on creating more resilient estates for the future. Both infection control and climate change must be at the heart of this, argues Stuart Skinner, Marketing manager at water controls specialist, Rada, who here explores the close link between health outcomes and sustainability, and how ‘making the right decisions should mean clean and green estates’.
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