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BeaconMedaes launches anaesthetic gas scavenging system


BeaconMedaes UK has been a trusted supplier to NHS and private hospitals for over 45 years and is owned by Atlas Copco, a well-established and world-leading provider of industrial productivity solutions with over 34,000 employees globally.


As a company committed to being at the forefront of development and innovation, BeaconMedaes’ medical gas pipeline systems (MGPS) product range continues to grow in response to the UK healthcare sector’s changing needs. The Anaesthetic Gas Scavenging System (AGSS) is an active system that extracts and disposes of waste anaesthetic gas mixtures from operating theatres and any other areas fitted with nitrous oxide terminal units, such as Maternity Departments. The removal at source eliminates the possible long-term health hazards to patients and exposed medical personnel.


The AGSS can also be used with a Central Destruction Unit (CDU) – another new addition to the comprehensive BeaconMedaes MGPS portfolio. The low-energy CDU provides sustainable gas cleaning of exhaled nitrous oxide, reducing it by over 99%


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by causing it to decompose rapidly into nitrogen and oxygen, the main components in air. BeaconMedaes said: “The combination of an AGSS and CDU delivers a full system solution that empowers hospitals to totally change the way they manage waste nitrous oxide gas. This not only protects the caregiver and patient, but also vastly reduces a facility’s carbon footprint, and supports the drive towards Net Zero, contributing to a cleaner, safer world.”


The BeaconMedaes CE-marked AGSS product range is now available and stocked in the company’s distribution and customer centre at Markham Vale, Derbyshire. BIM models are available to assist with plant room layout drawings, and enable the MGPS to be coordinated alongside other services. The experienced in-house


team can also provide designs of medical gas pipelines to


HTM 02-01 guidelines, as well as detailed 3D drawings and schematics showing sizes, equipment, and locations.


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Estates 2022 (pages 21-25), the Chair of Health Education England, Sir David Behan, said workforce issues were ‘the number one priority in health and care, not just in the UK, but globally’. He advocated developing ‘a more strategic, long-term approach’ to workforce planning, regarding the workforce as ‘our human capital’, and investing in it long term, ‘much in the way we have with the wider health service’. Having read the IHEEM / HEFMA Workforce Strategy, Future Leaders, he asked those gathered whether they were already taking a strategic long-term perspective on workforce planning. ‘Science, data, digital, and technology’,


and aspects such as remote consultations, ‘virtual wards’, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence, would all, he said, ‘have a tremendous impact’ on future healthcare provision, with clinicians needing to adapt and be ‘more generalist’, but what would be the implications of this increasingly digital ‘landscape’ for the healthcare estate, and those looking aſter it? Te session’s other speaker, CEO of East Suffolk


and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Nick Hulme, noted – highlighting a pressing ongoing challenge for the sector – that according to the NHS Estates and Facilities Workforce Action Plan published last June, 34% of the current UK healthcare estates and facilities workforce is aged over 55. One of the keys to retaining good and able staff, he believed, was what he dubbed ‘that exquisite exceptional leadership – treating every employee as a valued member of our staff, with all the richness, diversity, compassion, and skills they bring every day to improve the lives of the people we serve’. Tis applied as much to healthcare engineers, porters, catering, and cleaning staff, as it did to clinicians. However, with EFM professionals ‘some of the most under-rated staff in the NHS, ignored by politicians, and oſten by leaders’, he told those listening in management positions that ‘you cannot remind your staff oſten enough that every single thing they do, every single day, is saving a life’. He added: “It’s a crying shame that it took COVID for us to realise that – and I hope now we never forget it.”


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