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New automatic manifold changeover system launched
BeaconMedaes is excited to announce the launch of its next-generation Automatic Manifold Changeover System, the MAT-S.
The company said: “Safe, high-quality patient care depends on a constant supply of oxygen, nitrous oxide, medical air, and other gases. The new MAT-S Automatic Manifold Changeover System delivers superior reliability and offers a higher utilisation rate and uptime, so it can be used longer and more frequently. Smart features make it easy and efficient to operate.” The MAT-S comes as standard with a smart operating system. The controller features a 7 in touchscreen colour display with a simple, clean, and easy- to-use interface. The system also offers a host of unique control and monitoring features, such as alarm overviews and logs, a machine event history, a service mode and service reminders, secured access, and access machine information. BeaconMedaes describes the ‘all-new’
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flow and pressure trend visualisation as ‘a true gamechanger’. It said: “It allows customers to monitor their gas supply and plan cylinder refills accordingly. They can also analyse their gas consumption patterns and identify how they can make more efficient use of their gas supplies. Next to this, the built- in Smartbox allows real-time access to reports, monitoring, and machine data. The MAT-S comes with a dome- bias regulator design that helps reduce connections by 50%, and therefore also the risk of leakages. A lightweight cover eliminates the risk of corrosion.” The changeover pressure for a 4 bar MAT-S oxygen manifold is as low as 10.4 bar, and for a 7 bar and 11 bar MAT-S oxygen manifold it is 20 bar. This gives customers a higher utilisation rate and higher uptime, so it can be used more frequently and for longer periods to save on operational costs. The regulators come with a three-year warranty, and can be serviced without replacement, significantly lowering maintenance costs and time. Individual service valves allow servicing of any regulator without disrupting the gas supply, ensuring that patients receive continuous care.
BeaconMedaes UK Greaves Close Markham Vale Chesterfield S44 5FB
T: 01246 474242
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As readers will know, IHEEM celebrated its 80th anniversary last year – the Institute and the healthcare EFM profession have come a long way since IHEEM’s establishment during the Second World War. Equally, things have changed dramatically in medicine and clinical practice, and in the range of technology, products, and services, that have emerged over the past eight decades for healthcare facility use. How hospitals themselves are designed and built has evolved equally markedly – something underlined by speakers at another celebratory event last year – the IHEEM Hong Kong Branch 25th Anniversary Symposium, held on 3 November in Kowloon. Here, presentation topics included designing healthcare facilities to be more resilient to extreme climactic events, the significant increase in high-rise (i.e over 20 storeys) hospitals in Hong Kong and China over the last 3-5 years, and the city’s Climate Action Plan for 2050. Two of the guests were IHEEM President, Alison Ryan, and Past-President, Paul Fenton. Te former presented on Hong Kong’s existing hospital estate, its ambitious plans for new healthcare facilities, and some of the potentially far-reaching steps the Hong Kong Government is proposing to reduce reliance on fossil fuel-based energy – including greater use of hydrogen, and decarbonising the transport sector. Several speakers emphasised such events’ key importance in sharing international knowledge and expertise. Closer to home, and in a Healthcare Estates
2023 keynote last October, the Senior Responsible Owner for the New Hospital Programme, Natalie Forrest, gave an update on progress on the planned construction of 40 hospitals, before discussing the principles behind, and anticipated benefits of, Hospital 2.0 – a national approach to delivering new hospitals more quickly, at a lower cost, and with greater taxpayer value. Following her Manchester address, she was also among a number of high-level NHP speakers at an Autumn Market briefing in London on 9 November, aimed principally at suppliers (see pages 57-61). In November I enjoyed an hour-long chat
with the Director and Head of Profession, NHS Estates, at NHS England, Simon Corben – during which he looked back on an extremely busy six years in the post, and discussed some of he and his team’s short-to-medium term aspirations and goals (pages 39-43). By the time you receive this
issue, Christmas will have come and gone, and we will be into a New Year. May I wish all readers a happy and prosperous 2024.
Jonathan Baillie,
Editor jonathanbaillie@
stepcomms.com
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